PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16398030
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["360", "055000"]

Abstract:
A method according to one embodiment includes applying a static head skew to a magnetic tape head, positioning the first reader at a first y-position relative to a servo pattern in a servo band, and measuring y-positions of the second reader relative to the servo pattern in the servo band while the first reader is at the first y-position. A y-position value is calculated for the second reader based on the measured y-positions. The following process is repeated several times: moving the first reader to a next y-position, measuring y-positions of the second reader while the first reader is at the next y-position, and calculating a y-position value of the second reader based on the measured y-position of the second reader. A unique nonlinearity value of the servo pattern in the servo band is calculated for each of the calculated y-position values of the second reader.

Claim (Index 9):
A computer program product for characterizing nonlinearity in a timing-based servo pattern, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions readable and/or executable by a controller to cause the controller to:\n apply, by the controller, a static head skew to a magnetic tape head for misaligning first and second readers in a direction perpendicular to a tape travel direction thereacross; position, by the controller, the first reader at a first y-position relative to a servo pattern in a servo band; measure, by the controller, y-positions of the second reader relative to the servo pattern in the servo band while the first reader is at the first y-position; calculate, by the controller, a y-position value for the second reader based on the measured y-positions; repeat, by the controller, the following process several times:\n move, by the controller, the first reader to a next y-position, \n measure, by the controller, y-positions of the second reader while the first reader is at the next y-position, and \n calculate, by the controller, a y-position value of the second reader based on the measured y-position of the second reader while the first reader is at the next y-position; \n calculate, by the controller, a unique nonlinearity value of the servo pattern in the servo band for each of the calculated y-position values of the second reader using the respective calculated y-position value of the second reader; and store and/or output, by the controller, the calculated nonlinearity values.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.87037
- Patent Class: 360.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16044396', '16044407', '16290758', '15967355', '16045610']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7368868557733921
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5847021980045276
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7216683899965056
- Mean Citation Score: 387.80507
- Max Citation Score: 483.3398
- Similarity Product: 459.97557530140887

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