PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865798
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["341", "118000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for converting analog signals to digital signals. A reference slice is associated with each of a plurality of active slices to balance the loading on an active sampling track and hold amplifier within each active slice. Alternatively, the reference slice is split into a portion having a reference ADC that is shared by a plurality of partial reference slices, each partial reference slice having a partial reference input module.

Claim (Index 7):
A system for processing signals, said system comprising:\n a time interleaved analog-to-digital-converter (ADC), said ADC comprising:\n one or more active slices, each active slice sampling an input signal and outputting a digital value representing the input signal; \n one or more partial reference slices, each of the one or more partial reference slices corresponding to one of the one or more active slices, each partial reference slice taking a sample of the input signal concurrent with a corresponding active slice; and \n a shared portion of a reference slice coupled to each of the one or more partial reference slices and receiving the samples taken by each partial reference slice, the shared portion of the reference slice servicing one of the one or more partial reference slices at a time such that the combination of partial reference slices being serviced by the shared portion, and the shared portion of the reference slice, operate together to output a value representing the samples taken by the partial reference slice during the time the shared portion of the reference slice is servicing that partial reference slice.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71111
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15395390', '14322514', '14858793', '13944829', '13944826']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6181270194356773
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6308919285014788
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6194035103422575
- Mean Citation Score: 447.6214900000001
- Max Citation Score: 576.0768
- Similarity Product: 530.2817734542848

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test