PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762015
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["709", "224000"]

Abstract:
An example implementation may relate to a storage area network (SAN) switch and a SAN target device. For example, the SAN target device may issue an in-band diagnostic command to the SAN switch. The SAN target device may receive an in-band data message from the SAN switch in response to the in-band diagnostic command. The in-band data message may include diagnostic data about a port of the storage area network switch and a storage area network device connected to the port.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 14 , wherein the switch is of plural switches included in the SAN fabric, each of the plural switches being identifiable as a first category switch having more ports than a predetermined number of ports according to the topology information or a second category switch not having more ports than the predetermined number of ports according to the topology information,\n if the topology information indicates that the SAN fabric is smaller than the predetermined fabric size threshold, the diagnostic query strategy is determined to include issuing, by the target device to the switch, an in-band diagnostic command requesting fabric-wide diagnostic data, and if the topology information indicates that the SAN fabric is not smaller than a predetermined fabric size threshold, the diagnostic query strategy is determined to include polling each of the plural switches and synthesizing fabric-wide diagnostic data by the target device, the polling including:\n issuing, by the target device to a first category switch, a plurality of in-band diagnostic commands that together request diagnostic data about all ports of the first category switch and SAN devices connected to ports of the first category switch, each in-band diagnostic command requesting diagnostic data about a different subset of ports of the first category switch and SAN devices connected to the different subset of ports, or \n issuing, by the target device to a second category switch, an in-band diagnostic command requesting diagnostic data about all ports of the second category switch and SAN devices connected the ports of the second category switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31579
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10180150', '15704224', '15507534', '10974459', '14818395']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2705745268217039
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4787048883499163
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2913875629745252
- Mean Citation Score: 144.48333200000005
- Max Citation Score: 164.3184
- Similarity Product: 112.19933525447846

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