PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005592
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "237000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a method that generates different network measurements data (e.g., network topology, bandwidth estimation of different paths, etc.) for a pair of endpoints upon receiving a network administrative request (e.g., an application programming interface (API) request) or by other means (e.g., automatically and without intervention of a user). In some embodiments, the method is implemented by a network measurement agent operating on each endpoint and a centralized service component (e.g., web service layer) executing on a network manager machine (e.g., a controller) that responds to measurement requests. The network measurement agent probes the network periodically (i.e., in certain time intervals) or upon an API request that it receives through the network manager machine to gather the measurement data of a particular network topology between a pair of endpoints.

Claim (Index 31):
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one processing unit measures an estimated bandwidth between two endpoints of a network, the program comprising sets of instructions for:\n identifying a plurality of routing paths between the two endpoints, wherein the routing paths comprise a set of intermediate nodes and a set of links that each connect a pair of intermediate nodes, wherein the set of links comprises (i) a plurality of direct links that each directly connects a pair of intermediate nodes and (ii) at least one multi-path link that is a link between a pair of intermediate nodes for which at least two divergent sets of direct links exist in the plurality of routing paths; calculating an estimated bandwidth for each direct link in the identified routing paths; normalizing the estimated bandwidths for each multi-path link; and calculating an estimated bandwidth using the normalized bandwidths for the multi-path links and a minimum bandwidth calculated for each remaining direct link that is not part of a multi-path link.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9625
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15400846', '14341626', '14320052', '14320090', '13339983']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.623363889539051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5939572492334289
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6204232255084888
- Mean Citation Score: 432.73499
- Max Citation Score: 510.90906
- Similarity Product: 494.4274074368192

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

Dataset: test