PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865570
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
A method is performed at a source node in a network of nodes configured with a link state protocol, and in which at least some of the nodes are enabled for multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). The node discovers and stores a link state topology representing the nodes of the network, links between the nodes, path-costs for the links, and whether each link is enabled or not enabled for MPLS. The node determines one or more shortest paths from the source node to a destination node among the nodes based on traversing the link state topology and, while the node traverses the link state topology, detects whether each shortest path supports or does not support MPLS end-to-end dataplane continuity. The node programs an IP dataplane with each shortest path, and programs an MPLS dataplane with ones of the one or more shortest paths that support the end-to-end MPLS continuity.

Claim (Index 13):
The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the determining and the detecting collectively include iteratively visiting nodes of the network and, for each visited node:\n computing shortest paths from the source node to the visited node and neighbors of the visited node to arrive at equal cost multi-paths; and recording an indication of whether the visited node is enabled or not enabled for MPLS, resulting in a respective indication of whether each equal cost multi-path supports or does not support the end-to-end MPLS dataplane continuity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23611
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12877830', '15282996', '12430671', '14218540', '14292516']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5213310695142941
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5030415693453915
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5195021194974038
- Mean Citation Score: 221.84705
- Max Citation Score: 234.52565
- Similarity Product: 165.49958839135172

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