PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16022576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "216000"]

Abstract:
Link detection method, apparatus, network device and controller are provided. The method includes sequentially sending a detection message from a starting network device to each network device up to an ending network device on a detected link, the detection message including a source IP address and a destination IP address on the detected link, and an identifier of the detection message; receiving link status information reported by a network device on the detected link, the link status information including the source IP address, the destination IP address, a device IP address of the network device, and the identifier; and performing a matching between the detection message and the detected link based on the source IP address, the destination IP address and the identifier included in the link status information, and locating a network position of the network device on the detected link based on the device IP address.

Claim (Index 19):
The apparatus of  claim 14 , wherein the fourth determination module comprises:\n a first determination unit used for determining a flag in a VXLAN message header in the received network message; and a second determination unit used for determining whether the network message is the detection message based on the flag in the VXLAN message header that is determined by the first determination unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.24
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15958818', '15934229', '15795587', '15335993', '14318859']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.545251915447633
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5281908734633249
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5435458112492022
- Mean Citation Score: 258.74052
- Max Citation Score: 319.1737
- Similarity Product: 205.33159331788417

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