PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859738
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["711", "103000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for accessing a flash memory module, wherein the method comprises: building a physical block recording table corresponding to a logical address to physical address (L2P) mapping table, wherein the physical block recording table records at least one block whose physical address is recorded in the L2P mapping table; and when a specific block within the flash memory module is under a garbage collection operation, for a data page of the specific block whose logical address is within the L2P mapping table, referring to the physical block recording table to determine if reading the L2P mapping table from the flash memory module or not, for determining the data page to be valid or invalid.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the physical block recording table is stored in a memory of a flash memory controller, and when the flash memory controller updates the L2P mapping table, the physical block recording table is updated in accordance with the updated contents of the L2P mapping table.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11475
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13860118', '12397643', '12292572', '15275670', '13786352']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5804341104415726
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5067162249003948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5730623218874549
- Mean Citation Score: 263.61754999999994
- Max Citation Score: 282.49036
- Similarity Product: 205.38168827667

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

Dataset: test