PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965164
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["726", "023000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for mitigating denial of service attacks. One exemplary embodiment in accordance with the invention is a method of operating a communication system including the steps of receiving at a first device packets of a first packet flow; sending, from the first device, control information to a switch through which packets of the first packet flow pass or to a control device which controls the switch, the control information including a mask corresponding to a range of expected packet values to be used for determining which packets in the first packet flow should be dropped.

Claim (Index 15):
The communications system of  claim 10 , wherein said switch includes a processor, said processor in said switch controlling the switch to give a higher priority to packets corresponding to the first encrypted packet flow which include a value matching said mask than to packets in the first encrypted packet flow which do not include a value which match said mask.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83333
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15016157', '14842216', '14179248', '15882571', '15821475']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.311778098558572
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.554361563310826
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3360364450337974
- Mean Citation Score: 280.130916
- Max Citation Score: 416.9968
- Similarity Product: 397.6907702983856

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

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