PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964977
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["711", "162000"]

Abstract:
A system and method are presented that reduce the use of snapshot space. One embodiment of the present invention only performs snapshot copies for blocks on the source volume that have not yet been backed up. Another embodiment stores the data in the snapshot space in multiple files, and then deletes those files that contain data whose corresponding blocks have been backed up. A third embodiment stores the data in the snapshot space directly onto a dedicated device and then reuses the data blocks for data already backed up when the dedicated device is full.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the step of sequentially performing the block level backup is performed by a backup software process and wherein the steps of writing the data elements to the source volume is performed by a snapshot driver that intercepts write requests to the source volume.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78571
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11382851', '10925928', '10624858', '11960488', '12877186']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5661208022284304
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4901245558425395
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5585211775898413
- Mean Citation Score: 236.509402
- Max Citation Score: 246.79933
- Similarity Product: 196.53588145773648

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