PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005742
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["360", "055000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments are directed to computer program products for use with tape drives that oscillate the relative transverse position of a tape and magnetic head during seek operations (for example, by moving the magnetic head in the transverse direction). Some embodiments are directed to methods and computer program products for use with tape drives that select relative transverse position of the tape and magnetic head to counter uneven wear (for example, observed uneven wear, uneven wear predicted based on historical tape and drive usage data).

Claim (Index 1):
A method for use with a tape drive including a magnetic head with a tape facing surface, a head movement control sub-system, a tape movement control sub-system, and a tape medium that defines a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, the method comprising:\n receiving a wear profile data set including information indicative of an observed and/or estimated wear profile of the tape facing surface of a magnetic head of the tape drive; determining that one or more portions of the magnetic head of the tape drive along the transverse direction have higher levels of relative abrasive wear compared to at least one portion of the magnetic head of the tape drive along the transverse direction based, at least in part, on the wear profile data set; and controlling a relative position and/or relative orientation of the tape facing surface of the magnetic head and a portion of the tape medium proximate to the magnetic head in a manner to counter uneven wear indicated by the wear profile information during movement of the tape medium in the longitudinal direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91837
- Patent Class: 360.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15856248', '15856288', '15958393', '14860607', '12028676']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6571213990957648
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5322228329353121
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6446315424797195
- Mean Citation Score: 227.423446
- Max Citation Score: 343.9213
- Similarity Product: 282.94654206026195

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