PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871317
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
According to embodiments of the present invention, in a storage system, a switch receives an operation request, where the operation request carries request identification; the switch queries, according to the request identification, a flow table of the switch to obtain a flow table entry matching the operation request; and the switch forwards the operation request to a target storage device among storage devices according to a forwarding rule of the matching flow table entry. By using a characteristic of a SDN, the operation request is processed according to the forwarding rule of the flow table entry of the switch, thereby implementing load balancing of the storage devices and reducing information interaction between the storage devices.

Claim (Index 7):
A storage system comprising:\n a switch; a controller in communication with the switch; wherein the switch comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor perform the steps of:\n receive a flow table from the controller wherein the flow table comprises a plurality of flow table entries; \n receive an operation request, wherein the operation request carries comprises identification, and the request identification storage strategy information, wherein the storage strategy information indicates a number of copies of an object; \n query, according to the request identification, the flow table to obtain a flow table entry matching the operation request; \n when the operation request is a read request, a forwarding rule of the matching flow table entry is formulated according to flow load of storage devices that store requested data; \n when the operation request is a write request, the forwarding rule of the matching flow table entry is formulated according to remaining storage capacity of the storage devices; and \n forward the operation request to a target storage device among the storage devices according to the forwarding rule of the matching flow table entry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47059
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14583456', '15157791', '13818012', '15607200', '15525667']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5325373637478897
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5387899206862213
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5331626194417229
- Mean Citation Score: 235.5334
- Max Citation Score: 389.27997
- Similarity Product: 341.8133218082875

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