PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001820
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are provided for enabling tag networking. In one example, a network device (e.g., switch, router, etc.) is configured to receive a packet of a traffic flow and to analyze the traffic flow to determine the packet belongs to a particular type of traffic. The network device can then add and/or change a tag in a data field of the packet. The tag, among other things, serves as an identifier for the particular type of traffic flow. The tag is identifiable by a downstream node that is preconfigured to recognize the tag and to carry out logic in response to recognizing the tag. Advantageously, the tag functionality of the present approach provides a generalized way of adding information to packets; the information and the associated functionalities are customizable during a runtime of the network.

Claim (Index 15):
A system, comprising:\n a processor; and a memory storing program code, which, when executed on the processor, performs an operation for tag networking, the operation comprising:\n determining that one or more network devices in a computer network are configured to handle a tag; \n receiving, at the one or more network devices, a packet of a traffic flow, wherein the packet includes the tag located among data of the packet; \n reading the packet to identify the tag that is located among the data of the packet, \n performing a tag lookup to find logic that is associated with the tag, and \n applying the logic to the packet in response to performing the tag lookup, wherein the logic includes instructions for carrying out a service of the network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8875
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15080967', '13838713', '13846016', '11543818', '11096310']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4803057515105931
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5081105115907919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.483086227518613
- Mean Citation Score: 195.44486
- Max Citation Score: 298.5931700000001
- Similarity Product: 267.37231628643343

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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