PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871627
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["709", "226000"]

Abstract:
A replication of a physical network is created in the cloud. The replicated network safely validates configuration changes for any hardware network device of the physical network and the physical network end state resulting from the changes without impacting the physical network steady state. The replicated network creates virtual machines on hardware resources provisioned from the cloud. The virtual machines emulate network device functionality and have the same addressing as the network devices. Nested overlay networks reproduce the direct connectivity that exists between different pairs of the network devices on the virtual machines. A first overlay network formed by a first Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) provides direct logical connections between the cloud machines on which the virtual machines execute. A second overlay network of VXLANs leverages the first VXLAN to establish direct logical connections between the virtual machines that mirror the direct connections between the network devices.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 15  further comprising mirroring routing information and operation of the plurality of hardware network devices through routing information and operation of the plurality of virtual machines based on said replicating the plurality of direct connections, said replicating operation, and the plurality of virtual machines exchanging layer 2 frames across the plurality of direct logical connections.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07895
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15727681', '14231245', '15726335', '14137862', '14137869']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2616813050132796
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5645507757421185
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2919682520861634
- Mean Citation Score: 259.138432
- Max Citation Score: 469.34308
- Similarity Product: 388.2473356539202

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test