PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113719
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["711", "105000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for improving the management of data input and output (I/O) operations for Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) devices in a network storage system is disclosed. The storage system includes a storage controller that receives a series of write requests for data blocks to be written to non-sequential addresses within a pool of SMR devices. The storage controller writes the data blocks from the series of write requests to a corresponding sequence of data clusters allocated within a first data cache of the storage controller for a thinly provisioned volume of the pool of SMR devices. Upon determining that a current utilization of the first data cache's data storage capacity exceeds a threshold, the sequence of data clusters including the data blocks from the first data cache are transferred to sequential physical addresses within the SMR devices.

Claim (Index 26):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein the storage controller uses a first data cache as a read cache to store data blocks read from the pool of SMR devices in response to corresponding data read requests received from one or more host devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15942
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15459866', '15387164', '15280819', '14805090', '13931775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4927210577511417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5345731264435478
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4969062646203823
- Mean Citation Score: 220.26937200000003
- Max Citation Score: 347.2035
- Similarity Product: 240.89505597379804

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