PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16101169
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["710", "005000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for managing storage devices includes a host interface, a plurality of storage device interfaces, and a processor. The host interface is configured to communicatively couple with a host device and the plurality of storage interfaces configured to communicatively couple with storage devices. The processor is communicatively coupled to the host interface and the plurality of storage device interfaces. Further, the processor is configured to receive requests from the host device via the host interface and communicate the requests to the storage devices via the plurality of storage device interfaces. The processor is additionally configured to receive responses from the storage devices via the plurality of storage interfaces and communicate the responses to the host device via the host interface, manage a global submission queue and a global completion queue, and manage a submission queue and a completion queue for each of the storage devices.

Claim (Index 23):
An external storage device, comprising:\n a host interface configured to communicatively couple with a host device having a first read/write speed; a plurality of storage device interfaces configured to communicatively couple with storage devices having a second read/write speed less than the first read/write speed; and a memory comprising a host input/output queue, wherein the host input/output queue is larger than an input/output queue of each of the storage devices, wherein the host input/output queue comprises a global submission queue and a global completion queue, the storage device further comprising a processor configured to: receive a first request from the host device via the host interface and communicate the first requests to a first storage device of the storage devices via the plurality of storage device interfaces; receive a first response from the first memory storage device via the plurality of storage device interfaces and communicate the first responses to the host device via the host interface; update the global submission queue and a submission queue corresponding to the first storage device in response to receiving the first request; and update the global completion queue and a completion queue corresponding to the first storage device in response to completion of the first request.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.7619
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15003031', '14272214', '15086782', '14606947', '15920056']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6888519866970525
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4938715574807281
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6693539437754201
- Mean Citation Score: 238.114964
- Max Citation Score: 247.06895
- Similarity Product: 175.74533166496158

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

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