PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992413
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
A method including receiving, at a first router of a plurality of routers, a first message from the plurality of routers. The first message includes a designated router priority and a weight for each respective router. Based on the designated router priorities, a designated router is elected and a one or more eligible group designated routers are determined. The method determines whether the first router is the designated router or the at least one eligible group designated router. If the first router is the designated router, the first router provides a second message to the remaining routers indicating the eligible group designated routers and their weights.

Claim (Index 8):
An apparatus comprising:\n a communication interface configured to send and receive network communications; a processing device coupled with the communication interface, and configured to:\n receive a first message from each of a plurality of routers, the first message including a designated router priority and a weight of each respective router of the plurality of routers, the weight indicating a capacity of a respective router to forward multicast network traffic; \n determine, based on the designated router priority of each respective router, a designated router and at least one eligible group designated router of the plurality of routers, wherein the designated router forwards multicast network traffic to at least one endpoint; \n determine whether the apparatus is the designated router or the at least one eligible group designated router; and \n in response to determining that the apparatus is the designated router, provide a second message to the plurality of routers, the second message identifying the at least one eligible group designated router and the weight of the at least one eligible group designated router.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39583
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13068789', '15839886', '15476773', '14714806', '11710136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.548831054116088
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4843881577727451
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5423867644817537
- Mean Citation Score: 217.294764
- Max Citation Score: 230.63576
- Similarity Product: 179.744477155962

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