PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16411989
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "224000"]

Abstract:
Advanced detectors for vector signaling codes are disclosed which utilize multi-input comparators, generalized on-level slicing, reference generation based on maximum swing, and reference generation based on recent values. Vector signaling codes communicate information as groups of symbols which, when transmitted over multiple communications channels, may be received as mixed sets of symbols from different transmission groups due to propagation time variations between channels. Systems and methods are disclosed which compensate receivers and transmitters for these effects and/or utilize codes having increased immunity to such variations, and circuits are described that efficiently implement their component functions.

Claim (Index 17):
An apparatus comprising:\n At least three transistor circuits configured to receive at least three inputs, respectively, each input associated with a symbol of a codeword of a vector signaling code, each transistor circuit configured to generate a corresponding weighted input of a set of at least three weighted inputs, each weighted input having a respective input weighting factor of a set of at least two distinct input weighting factors; two summing nodes, each summing node receiving a corresponding subset of the at least three weighted inputs as corresponding summing-node inputs, each summing node generating a respective summing-node value of a pair of summing-node values, wherein at least one summing-node value corresponds to an analog sum of at least two of the at least three weighted inputs; and a differential comparator means configured to accept the pair of summing-node values and to responsively produce a digital output indicating which summing-node value of the pair of summing-node values is larger.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42466
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13842740', '16057559', '15816941', '15084280', '15285316']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4914092145720127
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5410601994525873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4963743130600702
- Mean Citation Score: 316.29288
- Max Citation Score: 378.61517
- Similarity Product: 355.73658731378487

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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