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 4):
The method of  claim 2 , further including, prior to triggering the garbage collection operation of the block perspective, determining whether a minimal number of fragmented blocks exist that require 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: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15640210', '15805488', '15615954', '15187994', '15830957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5377079830428878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.493383908911107
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5332755756297097
- Mean Citation Score: 190.68238
- Max Citation Score: 193.35588
- Similarity Product: 124.61656566450836

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