PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965164
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["726", "023000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for mitigating denial of service attacks. One exemplary embodiment in accordance with the invention is a method of operating a communication system including the steps of receiving at a first device packets of a first packet flow; sending, from the first device, control information to a switch through which packets of the first packet flow pass or to a control device which controls the switch, the control information including a mask corresponding to a range of expected packet values to be used for determining which packets in the first packet flow should be dropped.

Claim (Index 5):
The communications method of  claim 2 , wherein said mask specifies said range of expected packet values to be used for determining which packets in the first encrypted packet flow should be dropped, said range of expected packet values being a range of sequence numbers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83333
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15016157', '14842216', '14179248', '15882571', '15821475']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3168583859818416
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5447179819937394
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3396443455830314
- Mean Citation Score: 280.130916
- Max Citation Score: 416.9968
- Similarity Product: 281.74093042001726

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

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