PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16119053
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["709", "246000"]

Abstract:
A method is disclosed for bridging between a first data link carrying data units of a first data protocol and a second data link for carrying data units of a second protocol by means of a bridging device. This method may comprise receiving by means of a first entity data units of a first protocol, and storing those data units in the memory. Then, accessing by means of a protocol processing entity the protocol data of data units stored in the memory and thereby performing protocol processing for those data units under the first protocol. The method also accesses by means of a second interface entity the traffic data of data units stored in the memory and thereby transmits that traffic data over the second data link in data units of the second data protocol.

Claim (Index 41):
An apparatus comprising:\n an interface for interfacing with an input, wherein the input carries data units in accordance with a first protocol, the first protocol being such that data units in accordance with the first protocol include protocol data and traffic data; and one or more processors configured to provide a protocol processing entity, wherein said interface is configured to perform at least some protocol processing for data units received at the input, and respond to at least one message from said protocol processing entity with a reference to a memory buffer in which one or more data units are stored, control of said memory buffer being handed over to said protocol processing entity by removing said memory buffer from an owned buffer list of the interface and adding said memory buffer to an owned buffer list of the protocol processing entity, and the protocol processing entity is arranged to cause said one or more processors to perform protocol processing for said data units stored in said memory buffer without accessing the traffic data of those data units stored in said memory buffer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13644433', '13633830', '12373173', '15081719', '11111481']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2220742846298769
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5400579696388254
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2538726531307718
- Mean Citation Score: 226.106962
- Max Citation Score: 387.26517
- Similarity Product: 270.7166357792151

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