PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16421883
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
A packet processing method and an apparatus, where the method includes determining a to-be-installed flow entry and packet sending information, and sending, to a switch, a flow entry installation message carrying the to-be-installed flow entry and the packet sending information, such that the switch obtains the to-be-installed flow entry and the packet sending information from the flow entry installation message, installs the flow entry, and sends a packet according to the packet sending information. In the present disclosure, a controller sends a flow entry installation message carrying a to-be-installed flow entry and a packet sending message, where the to-be-installed flow entry and a to-be-sent packet are simultaneously sent, such that a switch simultaneously receives the to-be-installed flow entry and the to-be-sent packet, and performs flow entry installation and packet sending.

Claim (Index 13):
The communication system according to  claim 11 , wherein the switch is further configured to send a packet sending result, wherein the packet sending result comprises one or more of:\n a quantity of packet sending times of the end marker packet; a quantity of times of successful packet sending of the end marker packet; a packet response message of the end marker packet; or a quantity of times of packet response of the end marker packet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.4878
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15177900', '14819241', '15160158', '15137963', '15360129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5412229881776887
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5439690124800939
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5414975906079291
- Mean Citation Score: 270.711462
- Max Citation Score: 386.69623
- Similarity Product: 260.2736598043239

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