PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030277
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["709", "224000"]

Abstract:
Performance-degrading hardware components in computer storage systems are identified. A timed-out input/output (I/O) operation is detected. Hardware components that include a plurality of types of hardware components involved with the timed-out I/O operation are identified. Involve counts of the hardware components are increased. A plurality of suspicious hardware components are identified based, at least in part, on a hardware hierarchy including one or more types of hardware components. There is at most one suspicious hardware component for each type of hardware component. A performance-degrading hardware component is identified from among the plurality of suspicious hardware components based, at least in part, on the involve counts and the hardware hierarchy. The performance-degrading hardware component is in a layer of the hardware hierarchy that is lower than layers including other suspicious hardware components.

Claim (Index 15):
A computer system comprising:\n one or more computer processors; one or more computer readable storage devices; program instructions stored on the computer readable storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:\n program instructions to detect a timed-out input/output (I/O) operation; \n program instructions to identify each hardware component of a plurality of hardware components involved with the timed-out I/O operation, wherein the hardware components include a plurality of types of hardware components comprising a central electronic complex (CEC) hardware component type, a storage bay hardware component type, a host adapter hardware component type, a device adapter hardware component type, and a storage enclosure hardware component type; \n program instructions to increase involve counts of each of the identified hardware components; \n program instructions to identify a plurality of suspicious hardware components based, at least in part, on a hardware hierarchy including one or more of the types of hardware components, wherein: \n each type of hardware component represents a respective hierarchical level of the hardware hierarchy based, at least in part, on how delays in receipt of instructions are propagated between the plurality of types of hardware components such that:\n the storage enclosure hardware component type is lower than both the host adapter hardware component type and the device adapter hardware component type in the hardware hierarchy, \n both the host adapter hardware component type and the device adapter hardware component type are lower than the storage bay hardware component type in the hardware hierarchy, and \n the storage bay hardware component type is lower than the CEC hardware component type in the hardware hierarchy; \n each hierarchical level of the hardware hierarchy includes no more than one suspicious hardware component; and \n a suspicious component is a hardware component having a highest involve count within the respective hierarchical level of the hardware hierarchy; and \n \n program instruction to identify a performance-degrading hardware component from among the plurality of suspicious hardware components based, at least in part, on the involve counts and the hardware hierarchy, wherein the performance-degrading hardware component is in a layer of the hardware hierarchy that is lower than all other layers that include suspicious hardware components.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37705
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14747208', '14174956', '15212547', '14263640', '14610167']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2539867581885309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5483457115637018
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.283422653526048
- Mean Citation Score: 201.769852
- Max Citation Score: 415.79193
- Similarity Product: 344.8132183367246

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