PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16022576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "216000"]

Abstract:
Link detection method, apparatus, network device and controller are provided. The method includes sequentially sending a detection message from a starting network device to each network device up to an ending network device on a detected link, the detection message including a source IP address and a destination IP address on the detected link, and an identifier of the detection message; receiving link status information reported by a network device on the detected link, the link status information including the source IP address, the destination IP address, a device IP address of the network device, and the identifier; and performing a matching between the detection message and the detected link based on the source IP address, the destination IP address and the identifier included in the link status information, and locating a network position of the network device on the detected link based on the device IP address.

Claim (Index 14):
An apparatus implemented by a first network device comprising one or more processors and memory, the apparatus comprising:\n a fourth determination module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processor to determine whether a received network message is a detection message; a link information generation module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processor to, if the fourth determination module determines that the network message is a detection message, generate link status information based on a first source IP address and a first destination IP address included in the detection message, a device IP address of the first network device, and a first identifier of the detection message, and reporting the link status information to a controller; a searching module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processor to parse a destination VTEP address from the detection message that is determined by the fourth determination module, search a forwarding table of the network device based on the destination VTEP address, and replicate the detection message according to a number of at least one next jump of the first network device if the at least one next jump exists in the forwarding table; and a first encapsulation module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processor to encapsulate a MAC header of the detection message based on a MAC address of each next jump of the at least one next jump that is found by the searching module, and transmitting the detection message to the at least one next jump.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.24
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15958818', '15934229', '15795587', '15335993', '14318859']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5160111961370776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5216452265563679
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5165745991790066
- Mean Citation Score: 258.74052
- Max Citation Score: 319.1737
- Similarity Product: 238.5493534874618

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test