PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16411989
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "224000"]

Abstract:
Advanced detectors for vector signaling codes are disclosed which utilize multi-input comparators, generalized on-level slicing, reference generation based on maximum swing, and reference generation based on recent values. Vector signaling codes communicate information as groups of symbols which, when transmitted over multiple communications channels, may be received as mixed sets of symbols from different transmission groups due to propagation time variations between channels. Systems and methods are disclosed which compensate receivers and transmitters for these effects and/or utilize codes having increased immunity to such variations, and circuits are described that efficiently implement their component functions.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n at least three transistor circuits configured to receive at least three inputs, respectively, each input associated with a symbol of a codeword of at least a ternary vector signaling code, each transistor circuit having an input weighting factor and configured to generate a corresponding weighted input of a set of at least three weighted inputs; two summing nodes, each summing node receiving one or more of the at least three weighted inputs as summing-node inputs, each summing node forming a respective summing-node value of a pair of summing-node values, each summing-node value representing a sum of the summing-node inputs; and a differential comparator means configured to receive the pair of summing-node values and to responsively produce a digital output indicating which summing-node value of the pair of summing-node values is larger.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42466
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13842740', '16057559', '15816941', '15084280', '15285316']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4911119789540406
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5411937296891866
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4961201540275552
- Mean Citation Score: 316.29288
- Max Citation Score: 378.61517
- Similarity Product: 365.5115346980924

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

Dataset: test