PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882409
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["711", "103000"]

Abstract:
Described is an improved storage architecture. In a particular aspect an improved storage architecture with increased throughput to Ethernet storage modules due to elimination of data path handling from a main control CPU is set forth. Other method and apparatus are described therein, including a scalable Ethernet storage module particularly suited for usage with the improved storage architecture described herein.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for writing of network digital data from and reading of buffered digital data to a network comprising:\n a backend storage array that includes a plurality of independently addressable backend storage devices into which backend storage array digital data is written and the backend storage array digital data is read from, each of the independently addressable backend storage devices including:\n a backend storage device processor through which the backend storage array digital data is written and read; \n a data memory coupled to the backend storage device processor for storing the backend storage array digital data; and \n a backend DRAM memory, different than the data memory, coupled to the backend storage device specific processor for storing meta data associated with the backend storage array digital data; \n a DRAM memory, different from the backend storage array, into which hash meta data for addressing individual ones of the plurality of independently addressable backend storage devices is written and read; a storage processing unit that:\n receives the network digital data from the network and stores the network digital data as buffered write digital data in a write data buffer; \n writes the buffered write digital data as the backend storage array digital data to one of the plurality of independently addressable backend storage devices of the backend storage array upon receipt of a write control signal and a particular hash meta data from the central processing unit; and \n reads the backend storage array digital data from one of the plurality of independently addressable backend storage devices of the backend storage array as the buffered digital data and stores the buffered digital data in a read data buffer upon receipt of a read control signal and another particular hash meta data from the central processing unit; and \n transmits the buffer digital data from the read data buffer to the network; \n a central processing unit that is coupled between the DRAM memory and the storage processing unit for writing the hash meta data to the DRAM memory, reading the hash meta data from the DRAM memory and providing the read control signal and the write control signal; wherein the storage processing unit is not configured to write to the DRAM memory and read from the DRAM memory without transmission through the central processing unit; wherein the central processing unit is not configured to write the backend storage array digital data to the backend storage array and is also not configured to read the backend storage array digital data from the backend storage array; and wherein the storage processing unit and the central processing unit are configured to eliminate data path switching by the central processing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.3913
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14562110', '12481303', '14062374', '13280869', '15338897']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5064637635352914
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5847855326042357
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5142959404421859
- Mean Citation Score: 228.388536
- Max Citation Score: 478.0781
- Similarity Product: 475.3957735859453

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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