PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903992
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["709", "212000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for selection of memory locations for data access operations in a dispersed storage network (DSN) are disclosed. In various embodiments, a dispersed storage (DS) processing module of the DSN receives a DSN access request regarding at least one data segment of a data object. The DS processing module determines a DSN address associated with the DSN access request and performs a scoring function using the DSN address and one or more properties of DSN memory to produce a storage scoring resultant. The storage scoring resultant is utilized to identify a set of storage units of the DSN. A set of access requests is then sent to the set of storage units regarding the DSN access request. The scoring function can include, for example, performing deterministic functions, normalizing functions and ranking functions to produce the storage scoring resultant.

Claim (Index 19):
A computing device of a group of computing devices of a dispersed storage network (DSN), the computing device comprises:\n an interface; a local memory comprising instructions; and a processing module operably coupled to the interface and the local memory, wherein the processing module executes the instructions to:\n receive, via the interface, a DSN access request regarding at least one data segment of a data object associated with the DSN; \n determine a DSN address associated with the DSN access request; \n perform a scoring function using the DSN address and one or more properties of DSN memory of the DSN to produce a storage scoring resultant, wherein the DSN memory includes a plurality of storage units; \n utilize the storage scoring resultant to identify a set of storage units of the plurality of storage units; and \n send, via the interface, a set of access requests to the set of storage units regarding the DSN access request.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14721615', '14707974', '14721723', '15805085', '14721838']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3193404154843058
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5775586014648991
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3451622340823652
- Mean Citation Score: 442.554162
- Max Citation Score: 474.14743
- Similarity Product: 438.4226601750112

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

Dataset: test