PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977199
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "390000"]

Abstract:
A method for multicast packet transmission, executable in a software defined network having at least one input port, at least two output ports, and at least one network node. Switching rules are generated for transmitting at least one packet of a multicast group from an input port to an output port. For a given external traffic consumer, which is the first to request the multicast group, a shortest path from a given input port to a given output port, associated with the given external traffic consumer, is determined. For a subsequent external traffic consumer requesting the at least one multicast group, a shortest path from a network node closest to an output port of the subsequent external traffic consumer, where the switching rules for the multicast group are set, is determined.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one packet of the at least one multicast group from the external traffic source has been received, at the at least one input port, asynchronously.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58929
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13649026', '15051623', '12322159', '13843905', '14498951']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5214499401703304
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5028998267913987
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5195949288324373
- Mean Citation Score: 200.919662
- Max Citation Score: 208.01616
- Similarity Product: 135.18552799964905

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