PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869490
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "390000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first network switch configured to be within a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network, which has a set of network switches including the first network switch. The first network switch is configured to receive, from a first network device, a login signal including a proposed logical identifier for the first network device. The first network switch is configured to send, in response to the login signal, a multicast signal including the proposed logical identifier to remaining network switches from the set of network switches. As a result, a second network switch from the set of network switches enforces a zone policy in response to receiving the multicast signal and prior to sending the proposed logical identifier to a second network device.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a first network switch configured to be within a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network having a plurality of network switches including the first network switch, the first network switch configured to receive, from a first network device, a login signal including a proposed logical identifier for the first network device, the first network switch configured to determine whether a conflict exists between the proposed logical identifier and remaining logical identifiers stored at the first network switch, the first network switch configured to send, in response to the login signal, a multicast signal including the proposed logical identifier to remaining network switches from the plurality of network switches in response to the proposed logical identifier being not in conflict with the remaining logical identifiers stored at the first network switch such that a designated logical identifier of the first network device and different from the proposed logical identifier is sent to a second network device based on a zone policy, the first network switch configured to send a data packet to a second network device when the second network device is an approved device based on the zone policy and in response to an acknowledgement signal received at the first network device from the second network device, the acknowledgement signal associated with the designated logical identifier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51786
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13324424', '12989336', '14502136', '12987073', '12987066']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5011138180984895
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5602959172265414
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5070320280112948
- Mean Citation Score: 274.607228
- Max Citation Score: 417.33472
- Similarity Product: 412.0024464422988

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