PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873895
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["370", "400000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an SDN-based ARP implementation method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a controller, an ARP request sent by a first switch, and when it is determined that no ARP entry corresponding to the ARP request exists locally, sending, to the first switch, an instruction configured to instruct the first switch to flood the ARP request. In this way, the ARP request can be broadcast to an entire network by means of message forwarding between switches.

Claim (Index 16):
The apparatus according to  claim 8 , wherein the apparatus is a controller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69091
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14738341', '15401269', '15086524', '13961830', '15160158']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5954417981489266
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5176707513442236
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5876646934684563
- Mean Citation Score: 256.32493600000004
- Max Citation Score: 258.87387
- Similarity Product: 136.02115288747967

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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