PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995682
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["712", "240000"]

Abstract:
A computer processor includes a branch prediction unit that includes a local branch predictor and a global branch predictor. Managing power consumption in such a computer processor includes, for each of a plurality of branch instructions: performing, by the local branch predictor, a local branch prediction; performing, by each of the global branch predictors, a global branch prediction; determining to utilize the local branch prediction over the global branch predictions as a branch prediction for the branch instruction; incrementing a value of a counter; determining whether the value of the counter exceeds a predetermined threshold; and if the value of the counter exceeds the predetermined threshold, powering down at least one of the global branch predictors and configuring the branch prediction unit to bypass the powered down global branch predictor for branch predictions of subsequent branch instructions.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein, performing a global branch prediction further comprises performing a branch prediction in dependence upon a global history vector and the address of the branch instruction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 712.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15165439', '15220986', '15049700', '10743711', '15163987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6282288591229204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5511121398865376
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6205171871992821
- Mean Citation Score: 301.386162
- Max Citation Score: 411.79507
- Similarity Product: 409.81515573284446

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test