PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16151161
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["710", "260000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes an interrupt control circuit that receives a plurality of interrupt signals from the circuit blocks and outputs an interrupt request to the processor, and an interrupt monitoring circuit that corresponds to one of the interrupt signals and includes a setting circuit for setting a monitoring type and first and second monitoring periods. If the monitoring type indicates an asserted state of the interrupt signal, the interrupt monitoring circuit monitors the asserted state. If a first duration of the continuous asserted state exceeds the first monitoring period, the interrupt monitoring circuit detects the state as a failure. If the monitoring type indicates a negated state of the interrupt signal, the interrupt monitoring circuit monitors the negated state. If a second duration of the continuous negated state exceeds the second monitoring period, the interrupt monitoring circuit detects the state as a failure.

Claim (Index 16):
A failure detection method of a semiconductor device that includes a first processor that performs a predetermined interrupt in response to an interrupt request, a plurality of circuit blocks, each outputting an interrupt signal, a first interrupt control circuit that receives the interrupt signals from the circuit blocks and outputs the interrupt request to the first processor and at least one interrupt monitoring circuit that corresponds to at least one of the interrupt signals and includes a setting circuit for setting a monitoring type and first and second monitoring periods, the monitoring type indicating a monitoring state of the corresponding interrupt signal, the method comprising:\n under control of the interrupt monitoring circuit,\n setting the monitoring type and the first and second monitoring periods in the setting circuit; \n starting monitoring the interrupt signal according to the setting of the monitoring type; \n if the monitoring type indicates an asserted state of the interrupt signal, monitoring the asserted state; \n comparing a first duration of the continuous asserted state and a first monitoring period to detect a failure if the first duration exceeds the first monitoring period; \n if the monitoring type indicates a negated state of the interrupt signal, monitoring the negated state; and \n detecting a failure if a second duration of the continuous negated state exceeds a second monitoring period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2766
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12990983', '15682934', '12019231', '15828713', '13861708']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6756310456632667
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4661736548410469
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6546853065810447
- Mean Citation Score: 154.759912
- Max Citation Score: 164.90986999999996
- Similarity Product: 123.5979876624274

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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