PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912170
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["330", "251000"]

Abstract:
A receiver amplifier and also a receiver equalizer is provided for a three-level signaling system. The receiver amplifier includes a single current source that drives a current into node shared by three transistors arranged in parallel. A trio of input signals corresponds to the three transistors on a one-to-one basis. Each input signal drives the gate of its corresponding transistor. In addition, each transistor produces a corresponding output voltage at a terminal coupled to a resistor. The receiver equalizer includes three transistors and three corresponding equalizing pairs of a resistor and a capacitor. A terminal for the capacitor and for the resistor in each equalizing pair connects to a terminal of the corresponding transistor

Claim (Index 16):
A method for a three-level signaling system, comprising:\n driving a current into a node shared by a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor; while receiving the current at the node: weakly switching on the first transistor responsive to a first input signal to produce a low voltage signal at a terminal of the first transistor by conducting a first portion of the current through the first transistor, wherein the low voltage signal is an amplified version of the first input signal; switching on the second transistor responsive to a second input signal to produce a high voltage signal at a terminal of the second transistor by conducting a second portion of the current through the second transistor, wherein the high voltage signal is an amplified version of the second input signal; and partially switching on the third transistor responsive to a third input signal to produce a mid-range voltage signal at a terminal of the third transistor by conducting a third portion of the current through the third transistor, wherein the mid-range voltage signal is an amplified version of the third input signal, the third portion is greater than the first portion, the second portion is greater than the third portion, the high voltage signal is greater than the mid-range voltage signal, and the mid-range voltage signal is greater than the low voltage signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95161
- Patent Class: 330.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12637884', '11040808', '12147000', '11796175', '11366646']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7419451175827884
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4784593104659934
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7155965368711088
- Mean Citation Score: 192.354066
- Max Citation Score: 204.22357
- Similarity Product: 173.95619338327526

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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