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 1):
A storage management system comprising:\n a storage manager that manages storage operations in the storage management system; a media agent component of the storage management system; wherein the storage manager is configured to:\n discover a first subclient of a first client that generates first primary data that is stored to one or more logical unit numbers among a plurality of logical unit numbers hosted by a storage array, \n wherein the first subclient represents a logical grouping of part of the first primary data; \n wherein the media agent is configured to:\n discover among the plurality of logical unit numbers a first logical unit number that comprises data of the first subclient; \n wherein the storage manager is further configured to:\n cause at most one snapshot to be generated for the first logical unit number regardless of how many clients and how many subclients store primary data to the first logical unit number; \n wherein at least one of the storage manager and the media agent is further configured to:\n register a first association between the snapshot and the first subclient; and \n wherein the storage manager is further configured to:\n cause a secondary copy of the first subclient to be generated from the snapshot and not from the primary data stored in the first logical unit number.

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): 0.639668974446908
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5860930439943448
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6343113814016517
- Mean Citation Score: 414.468642
- Max Citation Score: 475.92233
- Similarity Product: 390.0768280390918

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