PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
The present invention discloses methods and systems for managing VPN tunnels. A VPN concentrator establishes a first aggregated VPN connection and a second aggregated VPN connection with a rust host and a first network device respectively. When the first aggregated VPN connection comprises a first plurality of VPN tunnels, the VPN concentrator applies uplink and downlink bandwidth limits to each of the plurality of VPN tunnels. Similarly, when the second aggregated VPN connection comprise a second plurality of VPN tunnels, the VPN concentrator applies uplink and downlink bandwidth limits to each of the plurality of VPN tunnels. The first host encapsulates a first data packet in a first encapsulating packet and transmits the first encapsulating packet to a VPN concentrator using a first aggregated VPN connection. When the VPN concentrator receives the first encapsulating packet, the VPN concentrator decapsulates the first data packet from the first encapsulating packet and encapsulates the first data packet in a second encapsulating packet. The VPN concentrator then transmits the second encapsulating packet to a first network device using a second aggregated VPN connection.

Claim (Index 31):
A system comprising:\n a first network device; wherein the first network device comprising a first plurality of network interfaces, a first at least one processing unit, a first at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium; a second network device; wherein the second network device comprising a second at least one network interface, a second at least one processing unit, a second at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium; a third network device; wherein the third network device comprising a third at least one plurality of network interfaces, a third at least one processing unit, a third at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium; wherein the first at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program instructions executable by the first at least one processing unit for: establishing a first aggregated tunnel with the third network device using a first protocol; wherein the second at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program instructions executable by the second at least one processing unit for: establishing a second tunnel with the third network device using a second protocol; wherein the first at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium further storing program instructions executable by the first at least one processing unit for: transmitting first data packets to the second network device, wherein the first data packets are first transmitted through the first aggregated tunnel from the first network device to the third network device, and then are transmitted through the second tunnel from the third network device to the second network device; wherein the second at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium further storing program instructions executable by the second at least one processing unit for: transmitting second data packets to the first network device, wherein the second data packets are first transmitted through the second tunnel from the second network device to the third network device and then are transmitted through the first aggregated tunnel from the third network device to the first network device; and wherein the first aggregated tunnel comprises a first plurality of tunnels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.58491
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15389475', '14382551', '15441260', '15389769', '14454719']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5428021271169075
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5623866725870091
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5447605816639176
- Mean Citation Score: 337.554236
- Max Citation Score: 475.7822
- Similarity Product: 317.59143369379035

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

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