PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899699
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["707", "692000"]

Abstract:
An illustrative pseudo-file-system driver uses deduplication functionality and resources in a storage management system to provide an application and/or a virtual machine with access to a locally-stored file system. From the perspective of the application/virtual machine, the file system appears to be of virtually unlimited capacity. The pseudo-file-system driver instantiates the file system in primary storage, e.g., configured on a local disk. The application/virtual machine requires no configured settings or limits for the file system's storage capacity, and may thus treat the file system as “infinite.” The pseudo-file-system driver intercepts write requests and may use the deduplication infrastructure in the storage management system to offload excess data from local primary storage to deduplicated secondary storage, based on a deduplication database. The pseudo-file-system driver also intercepts read requests and in response may restore data from deduplicated secondary storage to primary storage, also based on the deduplication database.

Claim (Index 12):
A method comprising:\n hosting, by a computing device comprising one or more processors and computer-readable memory, a virtual machine and an associated data agent, which is a component of a storage management system; executing a pseudo-file-system driver that instantiates a file system based on exposing a first mount point for the file system,\n wherein the file system resides in a primary storage device in communication with the computing device; \n configuring, by the pseudo-file-system driver, an association between the file system and a deduplication database component of the storage management system; executing the virtual machine with access to the file system; invoking, by the pseudo-file-system driver, at least one deduplication job for excess data identified in the file system by the pseudo-file-system driver based on the deduplication database; and wherein based on the at least one deduplication job, the pseudo-file-system driver provides the virtual machine with access to the file system configured without a storage-capacity limit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10526
- Patent Class: 707.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15399597', '14527678', '15436563', '15437841', '15015049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.201192768521989
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5372270332141976
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2347961949912099
- Mean Citation Score: 279.041488
- Max Citation Score: 379.37415
- Similarity Product: 325.44704744102955

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