PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16262906
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["361", "679020"]

Abstract:
Provided is an enclosure for use in a modular storage system, the enclosure comprising a plurality of drive bays, a controller canister, an expansion canister, and a midplane connecting the drive bays to the canisters, wherein the controller canister occupies a greater volume of the enclosure than the expansion canister.

Claim (Index 34):
A method for configuring a modular storage system comprising:\n inserting two enclosures into the modular storage system, each enclosure comprising a plurality of drive bays, a controller canister, an expansion canister, and a midplane connecting the drive bays to the controller and expansion canisters, wherein the controller canister includes controller canister processing components comprising a processor, memory for use by the processor, and controller canister hardware to communicate with disk drives when positioned in the drive bays, and wherein the expansion canister includes expansion canister processing components and expansion canister hardware required to communicate with the disk drives when positioned in the drive bays, wherein the expansion canister processing components comprise instances of a subset of fewer of the controller canister processing components in the controller canister, wherein the controller canister occupies a greater volume of the enclosure than the expansion canister, and wherein each of the two enclosures include at least one power supply to supply power to the controller and expansion canisters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13933059', '12895077', '12274041', '13901333', '14634429']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8210824706068724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5853349806608137
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7975077216122666
- Mean Citation Score: 236.44326
- Max Citation Score: 450.27716
- Similarity Product: 431.0638820726537

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

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