PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019866
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["716", "133000"]

Abstract:
When a transition control unit stochastically determines whether to accept one of a plurality of state transitions, using a temperature, an energy change, and a random number, depending on a relative relationship between the energy change and thermal excitation energy, the transition control unit adds an offset to the energy change, controls the offset so as to be larger at a local minimum, at which the energy is locally minimized, than at a solution at which the energy is not minimized, and resets the offset to zero when the energy change value is larger than a threshold.

Claim (Index 5):
A method of controlling an optimization apparatus, the method comprising:\n holding, by a state holding unit of the optimization apparatus, values of a plurality of state variables included in an evaluation function that expresses energy; calculating, by an energy calculation unit of the optimization apparatus, an energy change of the energy for each of a plurality of state transitions that is caused by change in any of the plurality of state variables; controlling, by a temperature control unit of the optimization apparatus, a temperature; and adding, by a transition control unit of the optimization apparatus, an offset to the energy change when stochastically determining based on the temperature, the energy change, and a random number whether to accept one of the plurality of state transitions depending on a relative relationship between the energy change and thermal excitation energy, controlling the offset so as to be larger at a local minimum, at which the energy is locally minimized, than at a solution at which the energy is not minimized, and resetting the offset to zero when the energy change is larger than a threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94545
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15718949', '15755257', '14737868', '15264029', '10735604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2724732683589514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5161606028799129
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2968420018110476
- Mean Citation Score: 183.07028
- Max Citation Score: 353.2522
- Similarity Product: 310.6887951701522

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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