PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912398
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["711", "100000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments for efficient garbage collection in a data storage environment. In a storage system comprising multiple storage devices having respective sets of storage regions, at least one respective storage fragmentation threshold used to trigger a garbage collection operation is identified. The garbage collection operation is performed to reclaim data space in the storage system according to each of a block perspective and an area perspective. The block perspective performs the garbage collection operation on individual blocks of data and the area perspective performs the garbage collection operation on a plurality of the blocks in a respective storage region. The block perspective and the area perspective portions of the garbage collection operation are executed independently of one another.

Claim (Index 15):
A computer program product for efficient garbage collection in a data storage environment, by a processor device, the computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:\n an executable portion that identifies, in a storage system comprising multiple storage devices having respective sets of storage regions, at least one respective storage fragmentation threshold used to trigger a garbage collection operation; and an executable portion that performs the garbage collection operation to reclaim data space in the storage system according to each of a block perspective and an area perspective, the block perspective performing the garbage collection operation on individual blocks of data and the area perspective performing the garbage collection operation on a plurality of the blocks in a respective storage region; wherein the block perspective and the area perspective portions of the garbage collection operation are executed independently of one another to more efficiently utilize computing resources consumed upon performing the garbage collection operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19643
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15640210', '15805488', '15615954', '15187994', '15830957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.513558570966093
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4694349291787664
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5091462067873604
- Mean Citation Score: 190.68238
- Max Citation Score: 193.35588
- Similarity Product: 154.84772613631728

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

Dataset: test