PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863896
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["714", "006100"]

Abstract:
The invention introduces a method for GC (garbage collection) POR (Power Off Recovery), performed by a processing unit, including at least the following steps: after a reboot subsequent to a power-off event, reading a GC recovery flag from a storage unit and determining whether the GC recovery flag indicates that a flash memory needs a POR; and, when the GC recovery flag indicates that the flash memory needs a POR, programming dummy data into a predefined number of empty pages next to the last programmed page of a destination block of the storage unit and performing an unfinished GC data-access operation.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , comprising:\n when the GC recovery flag indicates that the flash memory does not need a POR, performing the unfinished GC data-access operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63768
- Patent Class: 714.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15349722', '13310806', '10547758', '14315172', '14964774']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2738623212683048
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.488348783061512
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2953109674476255
- Mean Citation Score: 154.688738
- Max Citation Score: 181.0571
- Similarity Product: 113.88546775174142

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test