PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140236
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["365", "214000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for improving the reliability of stored data in the presence of cross-temperature variation are described. To reduce the number of data errors caused by cross-temperature variation, two or more sensing passes may be performed corresponding with two or more different sensing times. The amount of shifting in the memory cell threshold voltages may be determined on a per-bit basis or on a cell-by-cell basis based on the sensing operations performed during the two or more sensing passes. The stored data states may be assigned based on the amount of shifting in the memory cell threshold voltages during the two or more sensing passes and the type of cross-temperature variation present (e.g., whether the memory cells were programmed at a temperature above 65 degrees Celsius and read back at a temperature below 25 degrees Celsius).

Claim (Index 12):
The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein:\n the indeterminate data state is associated with an overlap between a first data state distribution corresponding with the first range of threshold voltages and a second data state distribution corresponding with the second range of threshold voltages that is shifted higher than the first data state distribution; and the sensing circuit configured to detect that the degree of zone shifting is greater than a threshold number of zones and assign the particular data state to the first data state distribution in response to detection that the degree of zone shifting is greater than the threshold number of zones.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9863
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15184939', '14574110', '14574114', '13755894', '13755905']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7820102170619276
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4958778702195024
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7533969823776852
- Mean Citation Score: 212.803228
- Max Citation Score: 224.64476
- Similarity Product: 156.93392242711545

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