PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16188633
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["370", "390000"]

Abstract:
A packet forwarding apparatus includes: a multicast determination unit that determines whether a packet that flows through a virtual network is a multicast communication packet; a multicast mapping information storage unit; a multicast mapping unit that allocates a second multicast address to a first multicast address of a newly generated multicast communication and manages these multicast addresses as a piece of mapping information; and a packet encapsulation unit that encapsulates the packet that flows through the virtual network. The packet encapsulation unit encapsulates the multicast communication packet that flows through the virtual network by using the second multicast address.

Claim (Index 8):
A communication method, comprising:\n storing pieces of mapping information for a multicast communication; encapsulating a multicast packet using at least one piece of mapping information among the pieces of mapping information; and integrating pieces of mapping information having a same multicast communication range, wherein the multicast packet is encapsulated by using the integrated pieces of mapping information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38636
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15110853', '14952832', '15385134', '11034753', '14398950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.504291156758589
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5880029093976501
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5126623320224951
- Mean Citation Score: 296.40626800000007
- Max Citation Score: 545.57635
- Similarity Product: 396.39473145695325

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