PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869490
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "390000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first network switch configured to be within a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network, which has a set of network switches including the first network switch. The first network switch is configured to receive, from a first network device, a login signal including a proposed logical identifier for the first network device. The first network switch is configured to send, in response to the login signal, a multicast signal including the proposed logical identifier to remaining network switches from the set of network switches. As a result, a second network switch from the set of network switches enforces a zone policy in response to receiving the multicast signal and prior to sending the proposed logical identifier to a second network device.

Claim (Index 15):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a first network switch having a processor, a first port coupled to the processor, and a second port coupled to the processor, the first network switch configured to be within a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network having a plurality of network switches including the first network switch and a second network switch, the first network switch configured to receive, via the first port and from a first network device, a FCoE login signal including a proposed logical identifier selected by the first network device, the first port configured to receive a FCoE data packet from the first network device after receiving the FCoE login signal, the first network switch configured to, via the processor, determine whether a conflict exists between the proposed logical identifier and remaining logical identifiers stored at the first network switch, the first network switch configured to send a multicast signal including the proposed logical identifier to remaining network switches including the second network switch causing the second network switch to enforce a Fibre Channel zone policy in response to the proposed logical identifier being not in conflict with the remaining logical identifiers stored at the first network switch, the first network switch configured to enforce the Fibre Channel zone policy on the FCoE data packet, the second port configured to be operatively coupled to a second network device, the first network switch configured to send, via the second port and to the second network device, a designated logical identifier of the first network device based on the Fibre Channel zone policy, the designated logical identifier of the first network device being not in conflict with remaining logical identifiers in the FCoE network and being different from the proposed logical identifier when the proposed logical identifier is in conflict with a logical identifier of the remaining logical identifiers in the FCoE network, the first network switch configured to send, via the second port and to the second network device, the FCoE data packet when the second network device is an approved device based on the Fibre Channel zone policy and in response to an acknowledgement signal received at the first network device from the second network device, the acknowledgement signal associated with the designated logical identifier, and the first network switch configured to remove the designated logical identifier when the second network device is not an approved device based on the Fibre Channel zone policy.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51786
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13324424', '12989336', '14502136', '12987073', '12987066']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5049414617741936
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5540309062968244
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5098504062264567
- Mean Citation Score: 274.607228
- Max Citation Score: 417.33472
- Similarity Product: 336.92898389732363

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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