PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113900
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["375", "232000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for direct sequence detection can receive an input signal over a communication channel. Next, the input signal can be sampled based on a clock signal to obtain a sampled voltage. A set of reference voltages can be generated based on a main cursor, a set of pre-cursors, and a set of post-cursors associated with the communication channel. Each generated reference voltage in the set of reference voltages can correspond to a particular sequence of symbols. A sequence corresponding to the sampled voltage can be selected based on comparing the sampled voltage with the set of reference voltages.

Claim (Index 30):
The receiver of  claim 25 , wherein the sequence-selection circuit comprises:\n a plurality of fine comparators, wherein each fine comparator has a fine-comparator reference voltage that is adjustable, wherein each fine comparator outputs a fine-comparator result signal based on comparing the received input with the fine comparator's reference voltage, wherein fine-comparator reference voltages for the plurality of fine comparators are uniformly spread between two fine-comparator reference voltages of the plurality of comparators that are closest to the received input; a probability-quantization circuit to output two probability values based on the fine-comparator result signals outputted by the plurality of fine comparators, wherein the two probability values correspond to two sequences of symbols associated with two reference voltages of the plurality of comparators that are closest to the received input; and a circuit to select the sequence of symbols from a set of sequences of symbols based on the two probability values.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15006981', '15624556', '14605860', '15243626', '14605835']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5264185481472827
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.545229523719724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5282996457045268
- Mean Citation Score: 279.827718
- Max Citation Score: 400.26172
- Similarity Product: 325.5208619952226

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

Dataset: test