PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016080
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes traffic forwarding in a network where a virtual local area network (VLAN) exists in multiple network sites that are geographically dispersed and connected via virtual links. A first edge device (ED) at a first site receives, from a second ED at a second site, information identifying a VLAN of the second ED through a virtual link. The VLAN identified in the information is an active VLAN of the second ED. An association between (i) the VLAN of the second ED and (ii) the virtual link through which the information is received from the second ED is recorded. When forwarding traffic to the VLAN of the second ED, it is determined the virtual link associated with the VLAN of the second ED is determined based on the recorded association and the traffic is forwarded via the determined virtual link.

Claim (Index 26):
The method of  claim 24 , wherein the first site is a single-homed site that connects to a public network via the first ED only, and the method further comprises:\n setting, by the processor of the first ED, a VLAN used for layer  2  virtual interconnection as the active VLAN of the first ED.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39394
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14372817', '13939667', '14373888', '15788378', '14768443']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5433286771836588
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5140665886479009
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5404024683300831
- Mean Citation Score: 195.239424
- Max Citation Score: 317.76678
- Similarity Product: 300.0036998507809

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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