PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968556
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["711", "114000"]

Abstract:
An illustrative approach to managing snapshots streamlines how and when snapshots are generated in a storage management system, such that fewer snapshots may be generated without diminishing the scope of data protection. A novel unified-snapshot storage policy may govern snapshots for any number of subclients. A unified-snapshot job based on the unified-snapshot storage policy enables the illustrative storage management system to automatically discover relevant components and generate at most one snapshot per target logical unit number (“LUN”) in a storage array. Each snapshot may comprise the data of any number of subclients and/or clients in the storage management system. Accordingly, one unified-snapshot job may yield a minimum but sufficient number of snapshots comprising data of all subclients associated with the governing unified-snapshot storage policy. An enhanced storage manager may manage the unified-snapshot jobs. One or more enhanced media agents and/or data agents may participate in the unified-snapshot jobs and in subsequent cataloguing of the snapshots.

Claim (Index 10):
An information management system comprising:\n a storage manager that manages storage operations in the information management system, including a unified-snapshot job that is based on a storage policy; a media agent component of the information management system, wherein the media agent is configured to:\n cause a storage array to generate a snapshot of a first logical unit number hosted by the storage array, wherein the snapshot results from the unified-snapshot job; \n wherein the storage manager is configured to:\n select a first subclient that is associated with the storage policy,\n wherein the first subclient represents a logical grouping of part of a first client's primary data, and \n wherein the first client's primary data is stored in one or more logical unit numbers in the storage array, and \n \n select a second subclient that is associated with the storage policy,\n wherein the second subclient represents a logical grouping of part of a second client's primary data, and \n wherein the second client's primary data is stored to one or more logical unit numbers in the storage array; \n \n wherein the media agent is further configured to:\n discover the first logical unit number, which stores at least some primary data of the first subclient and also stores at least some primary data of the second subclient, and \n instruct the storage array to generate and store the snapshot of the first logical unit number,\n wherein the snapshot comprises the at least some of the primary data of the first subclient and also comprises the at least some of the primary data of the second subclient; and \n \n wherein at least one of the storage manager and the media agent is further configured to register:\n (a) a first association between the snapshot and the first subclient, and \n (b) a second association between the snapshot and the second subclient.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88764
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15195937', '14542360', '14542371', '15873730', '14271302']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6362499335876256
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5941184237820067
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6320367826070636
- Mean Citation Score: 414.468642
- Max Citation Score: 475.92233
- Similarity Product: 438.93169563098303

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