PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161865
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["726", "001000"]

Abstract:
A network device allows inbound connections from external addresses to a computer on a local network while forbidding output connections from the computer to that external address unless preceded by an inbound connection therefrom. In some embodiments, the computer is allowed to accept inbound connections from external addresses but is not permitted to initiate outbound connections to other computers in the local network unless preceded by an inbound connection. In some embodiments, a request from an external address is processed by the network device by transmitting network information for the computer to the external address and temporarily changes network rules to allow connections from the external address. In some embodiments, if the computer attempts a disallowed connection, the connection attempt is routed through a proxy server by providing network data for the proxy server to the computer.

Claim (Index 17):
A first computer having a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program having computer executable instructions for causing a first computer to:\n receive a request from a second computer to provide one or more first network identifiers for establishing a data connection to a third computer in an external network, wherein the first computer and the second computer are coupled to the external network; evaluate whether the second computer is authorized to initiate direct inbound connections to the third computer; in accordance with the second computer being authorized to initiate direct inbound connections to the third computer, provide to the second computer the one or more first network identifiers; in accordance with the second computer not being authorized to initiate direct inbound connections to the third computer, provide to the second computer, one or more second network identifiers for establishing a data connection to a fourth computer that forwards traffic to the third computer via a connection with the third computer without transmitting the one or more first network identifiers to the second computer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33871
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15040762', '16161817', '16161757', '15040697', '15040655']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3257213808385628
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5589464999558815
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3490438927502947
- Mean Citation Score: 373.866764
- Max Citation Score: 416.82175
- Similarity Product: 393.5214731658101

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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