PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007025
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["711", "103000"]

Abstract:
A storage device includes a flash memory array and a controller. The flash memory array includes a plurality of blocks. A minimal erase number of blocks have a minimal erase count in the plurality of blocks. When one of the minimal erase number of blocks is erased, the controller subtracts 1 from the minimal erase number.

Claim (Index 11):
A data retention method adopted for a flash memory array, wherein the flash memory array comprises a plurality of blocks, wherein a minimum erase number of blocks have a minimum erase count in the plurality of blocks, comprising:\n erasing one of the minimum erase number of blocks; and when one of the minimum erase number of blocks is erased, the minimum erase count is decreased by 1, wherein the minimum erase count is the least of erase counts of the plurality of blocks.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03333
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15955917', '12552422', '13474801', '14455680', '12021885']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5237252518682105
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5163213472389246
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5229848614052819
- Mean Citation Score: 229.197264
- Max Citation Score: 320.51852
- Similarity Product: 233.9147934599304

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