PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971443
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
A method for implementing load balancing, an apparatus, and a network system, where a controller obtains a port attribute of each port of a first switch in a mesh network, determines, according to the port attribute of each port of the first switch, a virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to each port of the first switch, where all user-side ports of the first switch correspond to a first virtual routing and forwarding instance, generates a forwarding table of the first switch according to a topology of the mesh network and the virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to each port of the first switch, where a first forwarding entry of the forwarding table includes the first virtual routing and forwarding instance, a destination network segment and at least two forwarding paths corresponding to the destination network segment, and sends the forwarding table to the first switch.

Claim (Index 12):
A controller, applied to a system comprising the controller and a mesh network, the mesh network comprising a plurality of switches, and the controller comprising:\n a memory configured to store program instructions; and a processor coupled to the memory, the program instructions causing the processor to be configured to:\n obtain a port attribute of each port of a first switch, the first switch comprising any switch in the mesh network, and the port attribute indicating that the port is a user-side port or a network-side port; \n determine, according to the port attribute of each port of the first switch, a virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to each port of the first switch, the user-side port and the network-side port corresponding to different virtual routing and forwarding instances, and all user-side ports of the first switch corresponding to a first virtual routing and forwarding instance; \n generate a forwarding table of the first switch according to a topology of the mesh network and the virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to each port of the first switch, a first forwarding entry of the forwarding table comprising the first virtual routing and forwarding instance, a first destination network segment corresponding to the first virtual routing and forwarding instance and at least two forwarding paths corresponding to the first destination network segment; and \n send the forwarding table to the first switch, the forwarding table enabling the first switch to select, according to a load balancing algorithm and the first forwarding entry and from the at least two forwarding paths corresponding to the first destination network segment, a target forwarding path for a packet corresponding to the first destination network segment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.18
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13649026', '15639791', '14337161', '15610233', '15610313']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5517622402917257
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4877702580816147
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5453630420707146
- Mean Citation Score: 230.193308
- Max Citation Score: 236.80928
- Similarity Product: 181.0587950984192

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