PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16269424
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["360", "031000"]

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for determining a damaged area of a magnetic tape loaded in a tape drive, according to one embodiment, includes: determining a first error location on a magnetic tape where a first error occurred in response to experiencing the first error. Moreover, the method includes determining one or more areas on the magnetic tape to be examined. The one or more areas are determined using a predetermined algorithm which incorporates the first error location. Independent of a read and/or write operation, relative motion is induced between a tape head and the magnetic tape such that the tape head is positioned adjacent to each of the respective one or more areas in turn. Furthermore, each of the one or more areas having a respective number of measured servo errors which exceeds a threshold value is identified as a damaged area of the magnetic tape.

Claim (Index 19):
The tape drive as recited in  claim 14 , the logic being configured to cause the controller to:\n determine, by the controller, one or more areas on a second wrap of the magnetic tape to be examined, wherein the second wrap is adjacent to a first wrap of the magnetic tape which includes the first error location, wherein the one or more areas are determined using the predetermined algorithm; independent of a read and/or write operation, induce, by the controller, relative motion between the tape head and the magnetic tape such that the tape head is positioned adjacent to each of the respective one or more areas on the second wrap in turn; use, by the controller, the tape head to measure a number of servo errors that occur in each of the respective one or more areas on the second wrap; and identify, by the controller, each of the one or more areas on the second wrap having a respective number of measured servo errors which exceeds the threshold value as a damaged area of the magnetic tape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08
- Patent Class: 360.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15849187', '16168155', '11183540', '16268259', '16181210']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7113812849393625
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5396734043717049
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6942104968825967
- Mean Citation Score: 247.36697
- Max Citation Score: 374.3492
- Similarity Product: 331.4936296763658

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