PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16180181
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["712", "223000"]

Abstract:
Hardware units and methods for performing matrix multiplication via a multi-stage pipeline wherein the storage elements associated with one or more stages of the pipeline are clock gated based on the data elements and/or portions thereof that known to have a zero value (or can be treated as having a zero value). In some cases, the storage elements may be clock gated on a per data element basis based on whether the data element has a zero value (or can be treated as having a zero value). In other cases, the storage elements may be clock gated on a partial element basis based on the bit width of the data elements. For example, if bit width of the data elements is less than a maximum bit width for the data elements then a portion of the bits related to that data element can be treated as having a zero value and a portion of the storage elements associated with that data element may not be clocked. In yet other cases the storage elements may be clock gated on both a per element and a partial element basis.

Claim (Index 12):
The hardware unit of  claim 11 , wherein the control logic, is configured to receive information indicating which data elements input to the at least one multiplier and/or the at least one adder can be treated as having a zero value, and in response to determining that a particular data element can be treated as having a zero value, clock gate all the storage elements corresponding to that data element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65333
- Patent Class: 712.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13664689', '11749224', '13785528', '10435976', '12417013']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6260791192689705
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4824991033692199
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6117211176789954
- Mean Citation Score: 210.794676
- Max Citation Score: 213.49867000000003
- Similarity Product: 160.03274785068456

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

Dataset: test