PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16209677
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["711", "114000"]

Abstract:
A method of managing a plurality of storage devices. The method comprises at a first device connected to the plurality of storage devices via a switch, receiving an indication of a plurality of logical disks, each logical disk being provided by a respective one of the plurality of storage devices. Each logical disk comprises a plurality of logical blocks. Data representing a virtual disk is generated, the virtual disk comprising a plurality of virtual blocks, each virtual block being provided by a logical block. Access is provided to the virtual disk to a second device different to the first device. A first virtual block is selected, the first virtual block being provided by a first logical block, and a re-mapping operation is performed after which the first virtual block is provided by a second logical block different to the first logical block.

Claim (Index 9):
The storage system of  claim 8 , wherein the computer readable instructions are arranged to cause the first device to perform a second write operation, the second write operation comprising writing the first data to the second block.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01961
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15873615', '13969402', '14183250', '14502770', '15621513']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5182270676276672
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5587029145469898
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5222746523195995
- Mean Citation Score: 273.978024
- Max Citation Score: 423.74768
- Similarity Product: 414.6211711418629

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

Dataset: test