PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869931
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a Clos network load balancing method and apparatus. In certain embodiments, the method includes receiving, by a first switch, a first packet and determining, by the first switch, a third switch. The third switch is a switch in a second group of switches. The method includes performing, by the first switch, tunnel encapsulation on the first packet, a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address in a tunnel-encapsulated IP header being an IP address of a second switch. The method includes performing, by the first switch, Internet Protocol in Internet Protocol (IP-in-IP) encapsulation on the tunnel-encapsulated first packet and sending, by the first switch, the IP-in-IP encapsulated first packet.

Claim (Index 18):
The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 17 , wherein:\n the metric value of the path to which the parameter belongs comprises a delay of the path to which the parameter belongs; and after the sending, by the first switch, the IP-in-IP encapsulated first packet, the operations further comprise:\n receiving a second packet sent by the second switch, the second packet being a tunnel-encapsulated packet, a tunnel header of the second packet comprising the identifier of the third switch, the tunnel header of the second packet further comprising a first delay or a second time, the second time being a time at which the second switch receives the first packet and the first delay being a difference between the second time and the first time; and \n updating, by the first switch to the first delay in the second packet, a delay that is of a path on which the third switch is located and that is in the parameter set of the paths from the first switch to the second switch, or updating, to the difference between the second time in the second packet and the first time, a delay that is of a path on which the third switch is located and that is in the parameter set of the paths from the first switch to the second switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62745
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14488173', '14867865', '13225137', '13528751', '14812931']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5325198743581679
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4854322168066479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5278111086030159
- Mean Citation Score: 206.14675
- Max Citation Score: 213.39006
- Similarity Product: 153.02637982529995

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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