PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16357140
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["726", "004000"]

Abstract:
A method for providing user access to a network switch appliance, includes: receiving from a user a request to access configuration item for the network switch appliance, the network switch appliance configured to pass packets received from a network to network monitoring instruments; and determining, using a processing unit, whether to allow the user to access the configuration item for the network switch appliance based on information regarding the user.

Claim (Index 1):
A network appliance comprising:\n a plurality of ports through which to communicate data with devices external to the network appliance; and a processor configured to access data indicative of a plurality of sets of access levels, the plurality of sets of access levels including a distinct set of access levels for each port of the plurality of ports, each set of access levels being indicative of an allowed level of access, by one or more users, to a configuration item of the network appliance, the processor further configured to control access according to the plurality of sets of access levels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97436
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16013587', '13915490', '14272410', '14213659', '13746608']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2489914421613761
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5227444138867948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.276366739333918
- Mean Citation Score: 249.42693000000003
- Max Citation Score: 323.92874
- Similarity Product: 249.69794082174545

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