PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019866
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["716", "133000"]

Abstract:
When a transition control unit stochastically determines whether to accept one of a plurality of state transitions, using a temperature, an energy change, and a random number, depending on a relative relationship between the energy change and thermal excitation energy, the transition control unit adds an offset to the energy change, controls the offset so as to be larger at a local minimum, at which the energy is locally minimized, than at a solution at which the energy is not minimized, and resets the offset to zero when the energy change value is larger than a threshold.

Claim (Index 1):
An optimization apparatus comprising:\n a state holding unit configured to hold values of a plurality of state variables included in an evaluation function that expresses energy; an energy calculation unit configured to calculate an energy change of the energy for each of a plurality of state transitions that is caused by change in any of the plurality of state variables; a temperature control unit configure to control a temperature; and a transition control unit configured to add an offset to the energy change, when stochastically determining based on the temperature, the energy change, and a random number whether to accept one of the plurality of state transitions depending on a relative relationship between the energy change and thermal excitation energy, control the offset so as to be larger at a local minimum, at which the energy is locally minimized, than at a solution at which the energy is not minimized, and reset the offset to zero when the energy change is larger than a first threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94545
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15718949', '15755257', '14737868', '15264029', '10735604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2722752366363098
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5154542476810615
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.296593137740785
- Mean Citation Score: 183.07028
- Max Citation Score: 353.2522
- Similarity Product: 327.9188036556482

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

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