PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16456753
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["710", "313000"]

Abstract:
A Fibre Channel (FC) or FC-over-Ethernet (FCoE) switch has ports to forward Input-Output (IO) requests, and service data transfers, between end devices in a storage area network. The switch receives at a port a time ordered sequence of IO requests for data transfers to be serviced by the port. Each IO request including a data length of the data transfer. The switch detects a microburst on the port for each IO request. To do this, the switch parses the IO request to retrieve the data length, determines a transfer time required to transfer the data length over the port, upon receiving a next IO request, determine whether a time interval between the IO request and the next IO request is less than the transfer time, and if the time interval is less than the transfer time, declaring a microburst on the port, otherwise not declaring a microburst.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein:\n the end devices include a storage array and a server configured to communicate with each other via the FC or FCoE switch in accordance with a Fibre Channel based protocol; the receiving includes receiving the requests as Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) Input-Output (IO) requests, including IO read requests and IO write request sent by the server to the storage array, and IO transfer ready messages sent by the storage array to the server responsive to the IO write requests; and the parsing includes parsing each IO read request, each IO write request, and each IO transfer ready message to retrieve respectively the data length.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25676
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15670263', '14803247', '15269719', '13446675', '15299734']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6552302795971054
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5839587771309603
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.648103129350491
- Mean Citation Score: 210.881964
- Max Citation Score: 472.55676
- Similarity Product: 462.7828448315335

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