PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16112377
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["711", "172000"]

Abstract:
A method begins by storage units of a first pool of storage units of a plurality of pools detecting a change to a weighting factor of a pool of storage units and calculating an updated plurality of storage pool scores for a respective encoded data slice of a set of encoded data slices that is stored by a respective storage unit of the first pool of storage units. The method continues with each of the storage units of the first pool of storage units identifying one pool of storage units having a desired storage pool score based on the updated plurality of storage pool scores. When the one pool of storage units is not the first pool of storage units, each of the storage units of the first pool of storage units transfers the respective encoded data slice to a corresponding storage unit of the one pool of storage units.

Claim (Index 1):
A storage unit (SU) of a first pool of storage units (SUs) of a plurality of pools of SUs, the SU comprising:\n an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed or distributed storage network (DSN); memory that stores operational instructions; and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to execute the operational instructions to:\n detect a change of a weighting factor of a second pool of SUs; \n calculate an updated plurality of storage pool scores of the plurality of pools of SUs for a respective encoded data slice (EDS) of a set of encoded data slices (EDSs) that is currently stored by the SU of the first pool of SUs of the first pool of SUs and that is based on a decentralized agreement protocol function; \n identify, from a plurality pools of SUs implemented within a dispersed storage network (DSN) that includes the first pool of SUs and the second pool of SUs, another pool of SUs having a desired storage pool score based on the updated plurality of storage pool scores that is based on the decentralized agreement protocol function; \n determine whether the another pool of SUs is the first pool of SUs; and \n based on a determination that the another pool of SUs is not the first pool of SUs, transfer, via the interface, the respective EDS of the set of EDSs that is currently stored by the SU of the first pool of SUs to another SU of the another pool of SUs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01961
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14926891', '14707974', '15612885', '15839720', '15075946']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6068813997650088
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5489048593355301
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6010837457220609
- Mean Citation Score: 398.073408
- Max Citation Score: 428.47025
- Similarity Product: 350.3296933319867

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

Dataset: test