PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916144
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of a virtual output queue system within a network element enables per-input port virtual output queues within a network data processor of the network element. In one embodiment, each port managed by a network data processor has an associated set of virtual output queues for each output port on the network data element. In one embodiment, network data processor hardware supports per-processor VOQs and per-input port VOQs are enabled in hardware for layer 3 forwarding by overloading layer 2 forwarding logic. In such embodiment, a mapping table is generated to enable virtual per-input port VOQs for layer 3 forwarding logic using layer 2 logic that is otherwise unused during layer 3 forwarding. In one embodiment, multiple traffic classes can be managed per-input port when using per-input port VOQs. In one embodiment, equal cost multi-path (ECMP) and link aggregation support is also enabled.

Claim (Index 19):
A system within a network element to forward network data, the system comprising:\n a first network data processor coupled to a first network interface, the first network data processor to forward network data received from the first network interface, the first network data processor further to:\n receive a set of network data from a first port at the first network interface, wherein units of the set of network data belong to a plurality of traffic classes; \n determine a second port to forward the units of the set of network data based on a network layer address of the units of the set of network data; \n buffering the units of the set of network data in a plurality of traffic class virtual output queues (VOQs) associated with each of the first ingress port and the egress port, wherein a traffic class VOQ for a unit of the set of network data is determined at least in part based on the first and second ports and each of the plurality of traffic class VOQs is associated with a different one of the plurality of traffic classes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12162
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14989573', '10059641', '15378196', '13570419', '14685101']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5707319609739058
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5738199252195468
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5710407573984698
- Mean Citation Score: 322.886944
- Max Citation Score: 483.0725
- Similarity Product: 415.0611039675772

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test