PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16232945
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["711", "159000"]

Abstract:
Non-volatile memory systems such as those using NAND FLASH technology have a property that a memory location can be written to only once prior to being erased, and a contiguous group of memory locations need to be erased simultaneously. The process of recovering space that is no longer being used for storage of current data, called garbage collection, may interfere with the rapid access to data in other memory locations of the memory system during the erase period. The effects of garbage collection on system performance may be mitigated by performing portions of the process contemporaneously with the user initiated reading and writing operations. The memory circuits and the data may also be configured such that the data is stored in stripes of a RAID array and the scheduling of the erase operations may be arranged so that the erase operations for garbage collection are hidden from the user operations.

Claim (Index 1):
A non-volatile data storage system, comprising:\n a memory module having a plurality of memory blocks each configurable into a first group of memory blocks, each of the first group of memory blocks having a plurality of storage locations for data, wherein the memory blocks are further configurable such that a storage location of the plurality of storage locations of the memory blocks is characterized as having a status of one of live, dead, or free, and prior to all of the storage locations of the first group of memory blocks being characterized as being either live or dead, a processor configurable to: identify properties associated with locations in other memory blocks; and move the data from the active storage locations in the first group of memory blocks to free storage locations in the other memory blocks based on the properties associated with the locations in the other memory blocks.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82558
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16052513', '14965339', '15046182', '12273410', '13863149']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5593965110459087
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5388311250135949
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5573399724426773
- Mean Citation Score: 270.10574599999995
- Max Citation Score: 426.1860400000001
- Similarity Product: 275.5709569794202

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

Dataset: test