PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926835
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
Each switch in a network maintains a forwarding database table in which each record identifies a media access control (MAC) address, a port identifier, and a source identifier. A frame is received from a first network device at a first port of a first switch, wherein the frame includes a MAC address of the first network device. The first switch prepares a synchronization packet including the MAC address, a port identifier identifying the first port, a source identifier identifying the first switch and an instruction, in response to determining that the MAC address is not associated with the first switch in the first forwarding database table. The synchronization packet is sent to each other switch, and the forwarding database tables of the other switches are modified to implement the instruction.

Claim (Index 12):
The computer program product of  claim 1 , the program instructions further executable by a processor to:\n determine, in response to receiving the frame from the first network device at the first port of the first switch, whether the media access control address of the first network device is included in an entry of the forwarding database table in association with one of the other switches; send, by the first switch in response to determining that the media access control address of the first network device is included in an entry of the forwarding database table in association with one of the other switches, a synchronization packet identifying the MAC address and including a migration instruction; and send, by the switch that is associated with the MAC address in the forwarding database table in response to receiving the synchronization packet identifying the MAC address and including the migration instruction, a synchronization packet identifying the MAC address and including a deletion instruction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38333
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14747045', '14275920', '14797506', '13438785', '14502136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5272294200497267
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5068247848180533
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5251889565265594
- Mean Citation Score: 221.974748
- Max Citation Score: 296.77823
- Similarity Product: 277.46714378820303

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