PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948560
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["711", "103000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates in some aspects to suspending a read for a non-volatile memory (NVM) device. For example, a lower priority read may be suspended to enable a higher priority read to occur. Once the higher priority read completes, the lower priority read is resumed. To improve the efficiency of the read suspension, the lower priority read may be suspended once data sensing at a current level of the NVM device completes. The data for each level that has already been sensed is then stored so that this data does not need to be sensed again. Once the lower priority read is resumed, the data sensing starts at the next level of the NVM device. The data output for the lower priority read thus includes the stored data for any levels read before the read is suspended, along with the data from the levels read after the read is resumed.

Claim (Index 23):
A data storage apparatus, comprising:\n a non-volatile memory array; and a processor coupled to the non-volatile memory array and configured to:\n receive a first read command; \n perform a first read operation on the non-volatile memory array as a result of receiving the first read command; \n receive another command after receiving the first read command; \n suspend the first read operation as a result of receiving the other command; \n perform a second read operation on the non-volatile memory array as a result of receiving the other command; and \n resume the first read operation after completing the second read operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30986
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15946387', '15642425', '14719814', '15280898', '15893392']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5176699799552672
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782057065567666
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5137235526154171
- Mean Citation Score: 199.62432200000003
- Max Citation Score: 213.12677
- Similarity Product: 167.3304348641246

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test