PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007025
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["711", "103000"]

Abstract:
A storage device includes a flash memory array and a controller. The flash memory array includes a plurality of blocks. A minimal erase number of blocks have a minimal erase count in the plurality of blocks. When one of the minimal erase number of blocks is erased, the controller subtracts 1 from the minimal erase number.

Claim (Index 16):
The data retention method of  claim 15 , further comprising:\n erasing data stored in a second block among the plurality of blocks; when the data of the second block has been erased, determining whether a difference between a current erase count of the second block and the minimum erase count exceeds a target threshold; and when the difference between the current erase count and the minimum erase count exceeds the target threshold, selecting the second block to be the target block.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03333
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15955917', '12552422', '13474801', '14455680', '12021885']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5240307315286956
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5124222833686783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5228698867126939
- Mean Citation Score: 229.197264
- Max Citation Score: 320.51852
- Similarity Product: 265.240896333921

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