PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925421
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "232000"]

Abstract:
A method for routing communication traffic in a network includes detecting that a link in a parallel link configuration has failed and, in response, adjusting one or more metrics associated with other links in the parallel link configuration to indicate that none of the links in the parallel configuration are available. A router connected to a direct link in a parallel link configuration including one or more other routers connected to one or more indirect links, respectively, includes a memory storing configuration parameters specifying a minimum number of links required to be operational in the parallel link configuration and an artificially high cost, and a link metric adjustment module operable to set a metric of the direct link to the artificially high cost until the minimum number of required links are operational after startup of the router or failure and reactivation of the direct link.

Claim (Index 3):
A router connected to a first link in a parallel link configuration including one or more other routers and one or more other links, the router comprising:\n memory storing configuration parameters specifying a minimum number of links required to be operational in the parallel link configuration and an artificially high cost indicative of a link failure; a link metric adjustment module operable to set a metric of the first link to the artificially high cost until the minimum number of required links are operational after startup of the router or failure and reactivation of the first link; and an advertising module operable to advertise the first link metric, wherein the configuration parameters further specify an actual cost of the first link, and wherein the metric adjustment module is further operable to set the first link metric to the actual cost when the minimum number of required links are operational.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26866
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12125478', '12665980', '14042644', '13345243', '14605841']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.524929310293696
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5254232394312968
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5249787032074561
- Mean Citation Score: 214.330836
- Max Citation Score: 354.849
- Similarity Product: 301.2729265662432

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

Dataset: test