PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15766730
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "045000"]

Abstract:
A reduced-complexity optical packet switch which can provide a deterministic guaranteed rate of service to individual traffic flows is described. The switch contains N input ports, M output ports and N*M Virtual Output Queues (VOQs). Packets are associated with a flow f, which arrive an input port and depart on an output port, according to a predetermined routing for the flow. These packets are buffered in a VOQ. The switch can be configured to store several deterministic periodic schedules, which can be managed by an SDN control-plane. A scheduling frame is defined as a set of F consecutive time-slots, where data can be transmitted over connections between input ports and output ports in each time-slot. Each input port can be assigned a first deterministic periodic transmission schedule, which determines which VOQ is selected to transmit, for every time-slot in the scheduling frame. Each input port can be assigned a second deterministic periodic schedule, which determines which traffic flow within a VOQ is selected to transmit. Each input port can be assigned a third deterministic periodic schedule, which specifies to which VOQ an arriving packet (if any) is destined, for each time-slot in a scheduling frame. Each input port can be assigned a fourth deterministic periodic schedule, which specifies to which Flow-VOQ within a VOQ an arriving packet (if any) is destined. In this manner, each traffic flow can receive a deterministic guaranteed-rate of transmission through the switch.

Claim (Index 28):
The switch of  claim 4  or  16 , further comprising a controller that monitors packets that arrive at each of said N\u00d7M queues, and detects the arrival of unauthorized packets, wherein an unauthorized packet arrives at one of said N\u00d7M queues at a time-slot for which no arrival has been scheduled in said first schedule for that one queue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45872
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15157237', '12861455', '15405018', '14792226', '15680866']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7305427949932217
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5525533917836577
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7127438546722653
- Mean Citation Score: 367.877776
- Max Citation Score: 389.19693
- Similarity Product: 265.0230640787244

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