PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959304
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["365", "222000"]

Abstract:
A non-volatile memory apparatus and a refresh method thereof are provided. A control circuit determines whether threshold voltages of memory cells in a memory sectors are larger than a refresh read reference voltage and smaller than a refresh program verify reference voltage, and the control circuit determines that a memory cell needs refreshing if the threshold voltage of the memory cell is larger than the refresh read reference voltage and smaller than the refresh program verify reference voltage.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 8 , comprising:\n determining whether a first memory sector to which a current address corresponds comprises the memory cell having the threshold voltage larger than the refresh read reference voltage and smaller than the refresh program verify reference voltage; and skipping a refresh operation of the remaining memory sectors in the non-selected block to complete the refresh operation of the non-selected block if the first memory sector to which the current address corresponds does not comprise the memory cell having the threshold voltage larger than the refresh read reference voltage and smaller than the refresh program verify reference voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13158
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15420367', '12338879', '11101938', '11695552', '12903067']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7744293648644298
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4996336541641349
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7469497937944003
- Mean Citation Score: 231.96775
- Max Citation Score: 244.13237
- Similarity Product: 166.92670935299873

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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