PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150146
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["711", "162000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed methods and systems leverage resources in a storage management system to partially synchronize primary data files based on synchronizing selected portions thereof without regard to changes that may be occurring in other non-synchronized portions. Accordingly, a number of primary data files may be partially synchronized by synchronizing designated portions thereof via auto-restore operations from backup data. This approach relies on storage management resources to designate portions of source data that is to be kept synchronized across any number of targets; detect changes to the designated portions; back up changes to secondary storage; and distribute the changes from secondary storage to the associated targets, with minimal impact to the primary data environment. The approach may be mutually applied, so that changes in any one of an associated group of source data files may be likewise detected, backed up, and distributed to the other members of the group.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for using backup and restore in a storage management system for synchronizing portions but not entireties of primary data files, the method comprising:\n by a first computing device comprising one or more processors and computer memory, backing up a first portion of a first data file to a secondary copy of the first portion into a backup format not accessible as primary data to the first computing device,\n wherein the first data file is accessed as primary data by the first computing device; \n by a second computing device comprising one or more processors and computer memory, restoring the secondary copy of the first portion to a second portion of a second data file accessed as primary data by the second computing device,\n thereby transforming the secondary copy of the first portion from the backup format to primary data that is accessible to the second computing device within the second data file; and \n by a storage manager comprising one or more processors and computer memory,\n (a) instructing the first computing device to perform the backing up of the first portion of the first data file, and \n (b) instructing the second computing device to perform the restoring of the secondary copy of the first portion to the second portion of the second data file,\n thereby causing the first portion of the first data file and the second portion of the second data file to be synchronized with each other without the rest of the first data file and the rest of the second data file being respectively synchronized with each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01266
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15893281', '14601053', '14601036', '15412645', '15365756']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5377565728764354
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5341124580186953
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5373921613906614
- Mean Citation Score: 335.80090600000005
- Max Citation Score: 366.8642
- Similarity Product: 342.51992380235185

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

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