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 8):
A method of refreshing a non-volatile memory apparatus suitable for refreshing a non-selected block when an erasing operation is performed, wherein the non-selected block comprises a plurality of memory sectors, and each of the memory sectors comprises a plurality of memory cells, the method comprising:\n determining whether threshold voltages of the memory cells in the memory sectors are larger than a refresh read reference voltage and smaller than a refresh program verify reference voltage; and determining 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.

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): 0.7758001084183872
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4909191984807288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7473120174246214
- Mean Citation Score: 231.96775
- Max Citation Score: 244.13237
- Similarity Product: 188.3600098723429

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

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