PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000708
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
Introduced here is a technique for using a network switch device, which may include commodity switching fabric, to route packets through an inline tool, without introducing any additional information to the packets. The introduced technique modifies standard capability of packet forwarding and learning port-to-MAC address associations to route data packets through the inline tool. The technique may include applying two override settings to the network device. A first override setting involves a forwarding rule that is based on the arrival port and the content of the packet. A second override setting involves disabling the MAC address learning mechanism for the packet received from the inline tool via the second tool port of the network device.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein routing the first packet, received at the second tool port, to the second network port comprises:\n accessing a data structure including recorded associations between MAC addresses and ports of the network device; identifying the second network port for transmission of the first packet to the second network node, based on an association between the second network port and a destination MAC address of the first packet, the association recorded in the data structure based on the MAC address learning mechanism associated with the second network port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83582
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14880036', '14945347', '14807524', '12492548', '14807514']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5582821780577607
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5042874596264243
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5528827062146271
- Mean Citation Score: 198.964612
- Max Citation Score: 289.33115
- Similarity Product: 281.3265567910075

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

Dataset: test