PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958563
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["711", "135000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for reducing write-backs to memory is disclosed herein. The method includes determining whether a read/write request entering a lower level cache is a cache line containing modified data, and responsive to determining that the read/write request is not a cache line containing modified data, manipulating age information of the cache line to reduce a number of write-backs to memory.

Claim (Index 23):
An apparatus, comprising:\n means for receiving at least one of a read and a write request at a memory; means for comparing the at least one read and write request to a memory to determine if the at least one of the read and write request at the storage class memory has a dirty cache line; means for updating data associated with the at least one read and write request; and means for evicting a least recently used cache line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 66.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71795
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14927410', '13942291', '14515178', '13629196', '11060141']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5297754681502815
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5126706866429767
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5280649899995511
- Mean Citation Score: 218.412076
- Max Citation Score: 308.87885
- Similarity Product: 227.2036215949297

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

Dataset: test