PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873615
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["711", "114000"]

Abstract:
A method of managing a plurality of storage devices. The method comprises at a first device connected to the plurality of storage devices via a switch, receiving an indication of a plurality of logical disks, each logical disk being provided by a respective one of the plurality of storage devices. Each logical disk comprises a plurality of logical blocks. Data representing a virtual disk is generated, the virtual disk comprising a plurality of virtual blocks, each virtual block being provided by a logical block. Access is provided to the virtual disk to a second device different to the first device. A first virtual block is selected, the first virtual block being provided by a first logical block, and a re-mapping operation is performed after which the first virtual block is provided by a second logical block different to the first logical block.

Claim (Index 12):
The storage system of  claim 10 , wherein the computer readable instructions are arranged to cause the first device to perform a second write operation, the second write operation comprising writing the second data to the second storage area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01961
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13969402', '13842292', '14183250', '15621513', '14502770']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4475795121283511
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5484535465209666
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4576669155676127
- Mean Citation Score: 221.02612800000003
- Max Citation Score: 406.21106
- Similarity Product: 283.95116772963524

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