PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871317
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
According to embodiments of the present invention, in a storage system, a switch receives an operation request, where the operation request carries request identification; the switch queries, according to the request identification, a flow table of the switch to obtain a flow table entry matching the operation request; and the switch forwards the operation request to a target storage device among storage devices according to a forwarding rule of the matching flow table entry. By using a characteristic of a SDN, the operation request is processed according to the forwarding rule of the flow table entry of the switch, thereby implementing load balancing of the storage devices and reducing information interaction between the storage devices.

Claim (Index 1):
A method implemented by a switch, the method comprising:\n receiving, by the switch, an operation request, wherein the operation request comprises a request identification, and the request identification comprises storage strategy information wherein the storage strategy information indicates a number of copies of an object; querying, by the switch according to the request identification, a flow table of the switch to obtain a flow table entry matching the operation request; when the operation request is a read request, a forwarding rule of the matching flow table entry is formulated according to flow load of storage devices that store requested data; when the operation request is a write request, the forwarding rule of the matching flow table entry is formulated according to remaining storage capacity of the storage devices; and forwarding, by the switch, the operation request to a target storage device among the storage devices according to the forwarding rule of the matching flow table entry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47059
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14583456', '15157791', '13818012', '15607200', '15525667']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5313579756203306
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5399078886967609
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5322129669279736
- Mean Citation Score: 235.5334
- Max Citation Score: 389.27997
- Similarity Product: 374.2660731658709

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