PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16103871
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["710", "315000"]

Abstract:
According to a storage system, method, and apparatus for processing an operation request provided by embodiments of the present invention, a controller directly encapsulates a SCSI protocol operation request into an Ethernet operation request packet at the MAC layer instead of using the TCP/IP protocol layer and a disk enclosure decapsulates the Ethernet operation request to obtain the SCSI protocol operation request and sends the SCSI protocol operation request to a target disk, thereby reducing layers of encapsulation, reducing a processing delay of the storage system, and improving performance of the storage system.

Claim (Index 1):
A storage system for processing an operation request, the storage system comprising:\n a disk enclosure including multiple disks connected in the disk enclosure, with each disk in the disk enclosure configured to communicate using a Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS) protocol; and a controller comprising a central processing unit and a back-end adapter, wherein the controller communicates with the disk enclosure using an Ethernet network, wherein the disk enclosure and the back-end adapter each have a media access control (MAC) address; the back-end adapter is configured to:\n receive a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) protocol operation request sent by the central processing unit, wherein the SCSI protocol operation request includes a SAS protocol address of the target disk; \n obtain the MAC address of the disk enclosure according to a SAS protocol address of the target disk; \n encapsulate the SCSI protocol operation request into an Ethernet operation request packet; and \n send the Ethernet operation request packet to the disk enclosure according to the MAC address of the disk enclosure, wherein the Ethernet operation request packet includes the MAC address of the back-end adapter and the MAC address of the disk enclosure; \n the disk enclosure is configured to:\n receive and decapsulate the Ethernet operation request packet to obtain the SCSI protocol operation request; and \n send the SCSI protocol operation request to the target disk according to the SAS protocol address of the target disk.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04082
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14728178', '15912275', '15641583', '15173494', '13715402']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7267591397676484
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6074971947221147
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.714832945263095
- Mean Citation Score: 395.024276
- Max Citation Score: 501.7407
- Similarity Product: 488.5706621661903

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