PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869931
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a Clos network load balancing method and apparatus. In certain embodiments, the method includes receiving, by a first switch, a first packet and determining, by the first switch, a third switch. The third switch is a switch in a second group of switches. The method includes performing, by the first switch, tunnel encapsulation on the first packet, a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address in a tunnel-encapsulated IP header being an IP address of a second switch. The method includes performing, by the first switch, Internet Protocol in Internet Protocol (IP-in-IP) encapsulation on the tunnel-encapsulated first packet and sending, by the first switch, the IP-in-IP encapsulated first packet.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, comprising:\n receiving, by a first switch in a first group of switches in a Clos network, a first packet, wherein a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address of the first packet is an IP address of a terminal connected to a second switch in the first group of switches, the Clos network comprising the first group of switches and a second group of switches, any switch in the first group of switches connecting to at least one switch in the second group of switches, any two switches in the first group of switches being connected using multiple paths, any path in the multiple paths comprising at least one switch in the second group of switches; determining, by the first switch, a third switch, wherein the third switch is a switch in the second group of switches and the first switch and the second switch are connected using the third switch; performing, by the first switch, tunnel encapsulation on the first packet, wherein a destination IP address in a tunnel-encapsulated IP header is an IP address of the second switch; performing, by the first switch, Internet Protocol in Internet Protocol (IP-in-IP) encapsulation on the tunnel-encapsulated first packet, wherein an IP-in-IP encapsulated inner IP header is the tunnel-encapsulated IP header, and a destination IP address in an IP-in-IP encapsulated outer IP header is an IP address of the third switch; and sending, by the first switch, the IP-in-IP encapsulated first packet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62745
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14488173', '14867865', '13225137', '13528751', '14812931']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5346491889339664
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4767060824428875
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5288548782848586
- Mean Citation Score: 206.14675
- Max Citation Score: 213.39006
- Similarity Product: 168.1681283274794

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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