PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055152
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["726", "001000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a method for identifying unnecessary firewall rules for a distributed firewall of a logical network. The method identifies a firewall policy for network traffic of the logical network. The firewall policy includes a set of firewall rules. The method generates a set of data for implementing the firewall policy on a set of managed forwarding elements that implement the logical network. The method analyzes potential network traffic based on the generated set of data to identify a subset of unnecessary data. The method identifies a subset of unnecessary firewall rules of the set of firewall rules that corresponds to the subset of unnecessary data.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein analyzing the potential network traffic comprises:\n generating a representation of all possible network traffic; identifying a set of transfer functions that represent the set of data; and applying the set of transfer functions to the representation of all possible network traffic to identify the subset of unnecessary data as portions of the set of data that are not reached by the possible network traffic.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.89744
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14829567', '15477110', '14325230', '15663204', '14325228']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3374395826011769
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5755686820424997
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3612524925453092
- Mean Citation Score: 340.8159940000001
- Max Citation Score: 480.75873
- Similarity Product: 417.161017480182

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

Dataset: test