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 11):
The apparatus of  claim 10 , wherein:\n the sensing circuit configured to detect that an indeterminate data state is present for a particular memory cell of the plurality of memory cells and determine a degree of zone shifting for the indeterminate data state between a first threshold voltage zone for the particular memory cell corresponding with the first set of sensing conditions and a second threshold voltage zone for the particular memory cell corresponding with the second set of sensing conditions, the sensing circuit configured to assign a particular data state for the particular memory cell based on the degree of zone shifting and the temperature, the first threshold voltage zone corresponds with a first range of threshold voltages and the second threshold voltage zone corresponds with a second range of threshold voltages different from the first range of threshold voltages.

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): 0.7830016177541236
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4897775907406713
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7536792150527784
- Mean Citation Score: 212.803228
- Max Citation Score: 224.64476
- Similarity Product: 168.91429537420268

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

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