PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16193328
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["711", "114000"]

Abstract:
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to execute the operational instructions to perform various operations and functions. The computing device obtains directory metrics associated with a directory structure that is associated with a directory file that is segmented into a plurality of data segments and based on a determination to reconfigure the directory structure based on the directory metrics, the computing device determines a number of layers for a reconfigured directory structure, a number of spans per layer of the number of layers for the reconfigured directory structure, and directory entry reassignments. The computing device reconfigures the directory structure based on the number of layers, the spans per layer, and the directory entry reassignments.

Claim (Index 1):
A computing device comprising:\n an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed or distributed storage network (DSN); memory that stores operational instructions; and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to execute the operational instructions to:\n reconfigure, via the interface and via the DSN, a directory structure that is associated with a directory file that is segmented into a plurality of data segments, wherein a data segment of the plurality of data segments is dispersed error encoded in accordance with dispersed error encoding parameters to produce a set of encoded directory slices that are stored in at least one DSN memory of the DSN based on at least one DSN address corresponding to a source name of the directory file, including to: \n reconfigure the directory structure based on a number of layers, a number of spans per layer, and directory entry reassignments to generate a reconfigured directory structure including at least one of to create one or more children directory files, facilitate movement within the DSN of one or more directory entries from a parent directory file to the one or more children directory files, or to add pointers associated with the one or more children directory files to the parent directory file.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51562
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16047637', '15719360', '12942992', '15276270', '15840999']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4672461525491722
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5325530761213758
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4737768449063925
- Mean Citation Score: 231.51396
- Max Citation Score: 359.13388
- Similarity Product: 345.25550467090363

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