PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113719
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["711", "105000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for improving the management of data input and output (I/O) operations for Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) devices in a network storage system is disclosed. The storage system includes a storage controller that receives a series of write requests for data blocks to be written to non-sequential addresses within a pool of SMR devices. The storage controller writes the data blocks from the series of write requests to a corresponding sequence of data clusters allocated within a first data cache of the storage controller for a thinly provisioned volume of the pool of SMR devices. Upon determining that a current utilization of the first data cache's data storage capacity exceeds a threshold, the sequence of data clusters including the data blocks from the first data cache are transferred to sequential physical addresses within the SMR devices.

Claim (Index 27):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein the non-sequential addresses of the data blocks are mapped to the sequential addresses within the pool of SMR devices, based on metadata mapping the non-sequential addresses to virtual addresses of a thinly provisioned volume created for the pool of SMR devices and further, mapping the virtual addresses from the thinly provisioned volume to corresponding physical addresses within the pool of SMR devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15942
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15459866', '15387164', '15280819', '14805090', '13931775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.492492888267074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5333602676389528
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4965796262042619
- Mean Citation Score: 220.26937200000003
- Max Citation Score: 347.2035
- Similarity Product: 262.93394743788247

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