PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16054212
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
A storage card insertable into a host system is provided that includes a plurality of storage devices connectors. The storage card include slot offset features to offset a circuit board of the storage card from a host system slot alignment. This offset provides for storage device connector placement on both sides of the storage card. The storage card also can include a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) switch circuit configured to communicatively couple the PCIe signaling of the plurality of storage device connectors and PCIe signaling of a host connector of the storage card, where the PCIe switch circuit is configured to receive storage operations over the PCIe signaling of the host connector of the storage card and transfer the storage operations for delivery over the PCIe signaling of selected ones of the plurality of storage device connectors.

Claim (Index 20):
A storage apparatus, comprising:\n a primary circuit card having a front side and a back side; at least four M.2 storage devices comprising two M.2 storage devices positioned on the front side of the primary circuit card and two back side M.2 storage devices positioned on the back side of the primary circuit card, each of the at least four M.2 storage devices comprising an associated device Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface and solid state storage media, and configured to store and retrieve data responsive to storage operations received over the associated device PCIe interface; a PCIe switch circuit communicatively coupled to the device PCIe interfaces and configured to receive the storage operations issued by a host system over a host PCIe connector of the storage apparatus, and transfer the storage operations for delivery to selected ones of the at least four M.2 storage devices over the associated device PCIe interfaces; holdup circuitry configured to provide power to the at least four M.2 storage devices after input power is lost to the storage apparatus; and one or more slot offset elements configured to establish an offset distance between the primary circuit card and a secondary circuit card of the storage apparatus, wherein the secondary circuit card comprises the host PCIe connector and is insertable into a slot connector of a host system; wherein the offset distance generally aligns the primary circuit card with a centerline of a slot opening of a chassis of the host system, and accommodates a stackup comprising the two M.2 storage devices positioned on the front side of the primary circuit card and two back side M.2 storage devices positioned on the back side of the primary circuit card when the storage apparatus is installed into the slot connector of the host system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37705
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15278377', '15220740', '15418094', '15616597', '14694578']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5528698865210591
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5023891595478501
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5478218138237382
- Mean Citation Score: 267.835568
- Max Citation Score: 302.35843
- Similarity Product: 267.0214260402953

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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