PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16075330
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["375", "344000"]

Abstract:
A device ( 1 )) with an antenna that receives a target carrier signal ( 3 ) from a remote target ( 2 ) and transmits a device carrier signal ( 6 ) modulated with data to communicate data between the device ( 1 ) and the target ( 2 ), which device ( 1 ) comprises: clock extraction means ( 4 ) to extract a target clock ( 5 ) from the target carrier signal ( 3 ); driver means ( 9 ) to generate the device carrier signal ( 6 ) from a device clock ( 8 ); synchronization means ( 7 ) to synchronize the frequency and phase of the device clock ( 8 ) with the target clock ( 5 ), wherein that the synchronization means ( 7 ) comprise: time measurement means ( 10 ) to measure the phase difference between the target clock ( 5 ) and the device clock ( 8 ) or an internal device clock ( 33 ) related to the device clock ( 8 ) and to provide a phase information (φ 1,φ2,φ3 ); measurement control means ( 20 ) to initiate a first time measurement that results in a first phase information (φ) and to initiate a second time measurement a fixed time period (ΔT) after the first time measurement that results in a second phase information (φ 2 ); frequency correction means ( 11 ) to correct the frequency of the device clock ( 8 ) and/or the internal device clock ( 33 ) to the frequency of the target clock ( 5 ) based on an evaluation of the first phase information (φ) and second phase information (φ 2 ) by evaluation means ( 21 ); which measurement control means ( 20 ) are built to initiate a third time measurement after the frequency correction of the device clock ( 8 ) and/or the internal device clock ( 33 ) that results in a third phase information (φ 3 ) evaluated by the evaluation means ( 21 ) and corrected by phase correction means ( 22 ) which correct the phase of the device clock ( 8 ) to the phase of the target clock ( 5 ).

Claim (Index 10):
Method according to  claim 9 , wherein the measurement of the phase difference between the target clock and the internal device clock is done with the following steps:\n start a counter that counts with the internal clock at an edge of the target clock or of the internal device clock and stop the counter at an edge of the internal device clock or target clock to provide a coarse phase information; measure the time period from an edge of the target clock to the next edge of the internal device clock to provide a fine phase information; count the number of edges of the target clock and the number of edges of the internal device clock during the fixed time period (\u0394T) and provide a phase wrap information; evaluate the coarse phase information and the fine phase information and the phase wrap information to provide the phase information (\u03c6 1 , \u03c6 2 , \u03c6 3 ).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.35165
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10857468', '14356130', '15300028', '12279328', '11166657']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4395552228580868
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4889314330198336
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4444928438742615
- Mean Citation Score: 158.369908
- Max Citation Score: 162.22043
- Similarity Product: 111.25008697211264

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

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