PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948992
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a method for a particular forwarding element (FE) in a network of FEs. The method receives a packet at the particular FE. The packet includes a packet header that includes, for each of multiple FEs along a path from a source of the packet to a destination of the packet, (i) an identifier for the FE and (ii) a set of one or more actions for the FE to perform on the packet. The method parses the packet header to identify the set of actions for the particular FE. The method performs the identified set of actions.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein the source of the packet that generates the packet header is virtualization software of a physical host that hosts a virtual machine that generates the packet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13968390', '15421662', '14320448', '15261941', '14325228']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6227219709026299
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5068411886309246
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6111338926754594
- Mean Citation Score: 266.25896
- Max Citation Score: 268.35965
- Similarity Product: 188.24682420119643

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