PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052773
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
The present application provides a packet sending method and a network device. The packet sending method includes: receiving, by a network device, a first data packet; and if a MAC entry matching a destination MAC address of the first data packet is not found in a media access control MAC address table of the network device, sending, by the network device, the first data packet according to a forwarding behavior in a MAC default entry of the MAC address table. When the MAC entry matching the destination MAC address of the first data packet is not found, the network device does not need to flood the first data packet on all interfaces, but directly sends the first data packet according to the MAC default entry in the own MAC address table, thereby reducing a need for MAC address capacity in the network device, and not increasing unnecessary network traffic.

Claim (Index 11):
The network device according to  claim 8 , wherein the one or more processors further execute the instructions to:\n determine the MAC default entry of the network device, wherein the forwarding behavior in the MAC default entry comprises sending the data packet received by the network device to an upper-layer switching device of the network device, and a MAC address in the MAC default entry is a default MAC address.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76271
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14971985', '13772899', '15370589', '13764444', '13427698']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6194642708352216
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5678603448855805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6143038782402575
- Mean Citation Score: 355.3534620000001
- Max Citation Score: 463.51843
- Similarity Product: 398.2952615612269

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