PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16180181
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["712", "223000"]

Abstract:
Hardware units and methods for performing matrix multiplication via a multi-stage pipeline wherein the storage elements associated with one or more stages of the pipeline are clock gated based on the data elements and/or portions thereof that known to have a zero value (or can be treated as having a zero value). In some cases, the storage elements may be clock gated on a per data element basis based on whether the data element has a zero value (or can be treated as having a zero value). In other cases, the storage elements may be clock gated on a partial element basis based on the bit width of the data elements. For example, if bit width of the data elements is less than a maximum bit width for the data elements then a portion of the bits related to that data element can be treated as having a zero value and a portion of the storage elements associated with that data element may not be clocked. In yet other cases the storage elements may be clock gated on both a per element and a partial element basis.

Claim (Index 8):
The hardware unit of  claim 7 , wherein a number of storage elements corresponding to the second data element that are clock gated is equal to the maximum bit width less the bit width of the second data element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65333
- Patent Class: 712.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13664689', '11749224', '13785528', '10435976', '12417013']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6233242088527967
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4944965771697386
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6104414456844909
- Mean Citation Score: 210.794676
- Max Citation Score: 213.49867000000003
- Similarity Product: 139.2079940290618

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

Dataset: test