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 22):
A method for traffic forwarding a first edge device (ED) at a first site, the method comprising:\n recording, by a processor of the first ED, in a table an association between a first, active virtual local area network (VLAN) of a second ED at a second site and a first virtual link connected between the first ED and the second ED, wherein the second site further includes a third ED connected to the first ED via a second virtual link, and the first VLAN is not an active VLAN of the third ED; when forwarding traffic to the first VLAN at the second site, determining, by the processor, from the recorded association in the table that the first VLAN at the second site is associated with the first virtual link; and based on the determination from the recorded association, forwarding, by the processor, the traffic via the first virtual link to the second ED at the second site and not via the second virtual link of the third ED at the second site.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39394
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14372817', '13939667', '14373888', '15788378', '14768443']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5131761436947742
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5176761202432011
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5136261413496168
- Mean Citation Score: 195.239424
- Max Citation Score: 317.76678
- Similarity Product: 255.3506269060921

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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