PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059136
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["365", "158000"]

Abstract:
Once a delay locked loop has been locked to a clock signal, an omitted clock cycle is injected into the input of the delay locked loop without stopping the operation of the delay locked loop. The omitted cycle is later detected at an output of the delay locked loop, and the delay between the input and output is determined based on the time the omitted cycle requires to propagate through the delay locked loop. Once determined, the number of cycles of delay for the delay locked loop can be used in conjunction with an internal clock signal to launch data and/or data strobes from memory devices and memory controllers such that the proper phase alignment and clock cycle alignment is achieved.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for operating a delay locked loop having a first end and a second end, comprising:\n providing a clock signal to the first end of the delay locked loop, wherein the clock signal is a periodic signal that includes a plurality of cycles; detecting that the delay locked loop has locked to the clock signal; after detecting that the delay locked loop has locked, omitting an omitted cycle of the plurality of cycles of the clock signal as the clock signal is provided to the delay locked loop at the first end; detecting the omitted cycle of the plurality of cycles at a location within the delay locked loop; and determining a number of cycles of the clock signal in a delay of at least a portion the delay locked loop, wherein the number of clock cycles in the delay corresponds to a number of clock cycles that transpired while the omitted cycle of the plurality of cycles propagates from the first end of the delay locked loop to the location within the delay locked loop.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04839
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15583539', '12659057', '11588954', '11250600', '12615833']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7675814882345637
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.505233124321727
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7413466518432801
- Mean Citation Score: 220.804588
- Max Citation Score: 312.15414
- Similarity Product: 295.98678431884287

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