PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957464
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["250", "282000"]

Abstract:
A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.

Claim (Index 38):
A hardware module for compressing ion mobility data, the hardware module comprising:\n an input to receive input data being a first signal output from an ion detector, the data being characteristic of ion arrival times or ion intensities; an analogue to digital converter, to receive at the input the first signal and process the first signal to a digitised first signal; a first processor block, the first processor block having logic gates to receive the digitised first signal and process the first signal to one or more data frames; a second processor block comprising a buffer having an input to receive the one or more data frames and a memory block to temporarily store the one or more data frames and an output coupled to a compression control logic block for reading a data frame from the memory block and for determining a data frame type of the data frame and according to the data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream, wherein the one or more compression algorithms include:\n providing intensity or ion mobility information in respect of a first data point by calculating the difference between the intensity of the first data point and an intensity of a second data point adjacent the first data point or by calculating the difference between an ion mobility index or ion mobility of the first data point and an ion mobility index or ion mobility of a second data point adjacent the first data point; and \n performing further compression, wherein the further compression is lossless; \n determining an intensity distribution from a plurality of different regions or portions of mass spectral data or of a mass spectrum; \n estimating a background intensity for one or more regions or portions of said mass spectral data or said mass spectrum from said intensity distribution; and \n adjusting an intensity of one or more regions or portions of said mass spectral data or said mass spectrum in order to remove or reduce the effects of said estimated background intensity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89286
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15231155', '13375028', '13375056', '12302177', '12302168']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6948957766650222
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.543407896455033
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6797469886440233
- Mean Citation Score: 228.818562
- Max Citation Score: 397.75195
- Similarity Product: 380.1227588533909

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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