PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000708
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
Introduced here is a technique for using a network switch device, which may include commodity switching fabric, to route packets through an inline tool, without introducing any additional information to the packets. The introduced technique modifies standard capability of packet forwarding and learning port-to-MAC address associations to route data packets through the inline tool. The technique may include applying two override settings to the network device. A first override setting involves a forwarding rule that is based on the arrival port and the content of the packet. A second override setting involves disabling the MAC address learning mechanism for the packet received from the inline tool via the second tool port of the network device.

Claim (Index 18):
The computer program product of  claim 17 ,\n wherein routing the first packet to the first tool port comprises applying a first override setting to a packet transmission configuration associated with the first network port of the network device, the first override setting causing the network device to transmit the first packet, received at the first network port, to the first tool port; and wherein routing the first packet to the second network port comprises applying a second override setting to a packet transmission configuration associated with the second tool port of the network device, the second override setting causing the network device to transmit the first packet, received at the second tool port, to the second network port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83582
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14880036', '14945347', '14807524', '12492548', '14807514']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5572036743076105
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5106630546726164
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5525496123441112
- Mean Citation Score: 198.964612
- Max Citation Score: 289.33115
- Similarity Product: 252.56730382639168

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