PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894587
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["711", "103000"]

Abstract:
An improved garbage collection (“GC”) process configured to recover new blocks from used storage space is disclosed. After initiating the GC process for a flash memory in accordance with at least one of predefined triggering events, a first valid page within a first block marked as an erasable block is identified. Upon determining a first signature representing the content of the first valid page according to a predefined signature generator, the process identifies a second valid page within a second block as a duplicated page of the first valid page in response to the first signature. The process subsequently associates the logical block address (“LBA”) of the first valid page to the second valid page. In an alternative embodiment, page compression and sequential order of page arrangement can also be implemented to further enhance efficiency of garbage collection.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising compressing content of the first valid page to reduce number of bytes representing the content of the first valid page; and\n writing compressed first valid page to a new valid block.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87805
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14315172', '15365800', '15458684', '15294547', '14836107']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5272689545873601
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5510746606307748
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5296495251917016
- Mean Citation Score: 272.973606
- Max Citation Score: 420.65222
- Similarity Product: 370.0719051917553

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