PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16105880
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A Software Defined Network (SDN) includes a plurality of forwarding devices and a routing control device located separate from the forwarding devices. The routing control device, establishes paths to and from the network forwarding devices. Using such paths, forwarding devices send the routing control device information reflecting the topology if the network. Embodiments disclosed herein enable automatic discovery of the topology of the network and the paths to and from the routing control device.

Claim (Index 6):
A routing control device for discovering routes between a plurality of forwarding devices, comprising:\n a controller discovery module configured to determine a topology of a network of the plurality of forwarding devices; a topology database configured to store a current topology of the forwarding devices in the network; a path determination module configured to determine a path from a forwarding device directly connected to a source address of a data stream to another forwarding device directly connected to a destination of the data stream based on the current topology stored in the topology database, the path comprising a subset of the plurality of forwarding devices in the network; and a data forwarding module configured to forward one or more initial packets of the data stream over another path from the control device to the another forwarding device, while the path determined by the path determination module is being established.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15177170', '14667407', '14188027', '15605468', '15610446']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4981745497381269
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4973775013903163
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4980948449033459
- Mean Citation Score: 223.435402
- Max Citation Score: 264.82123
- Similarity Product: 223.79238331059696

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