PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015051
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "328000"]

Abstract:
For a network with host machines that are hosting virtual machines, a method for facilitating BUM (broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast) traffic between a hardware switch (e.g., ToR switch) and the host machines is provided. The network has a set of host machines configured as a cluster of replicators for replicating BUM traffic from the hardware switch to the host machines. A set of network controllers establishes failure-detection tunnels for links between the hardware switch and the replicator cluster. The replicator cluster informs the set of controllers of a change in the membership of the replicator cluster to initiate an update to the active failure-detection sessions. The set of network controllers communicates with the replicator cluster and a ToR switch to establish bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) sessions between one or more replicator nodes in the replicator cluster and the ToR switch.

Claim (Index 24):
The system of  claim 23 , wherein the exchange of information comprises a bidirectional forwarding detection session.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26087
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15146879', '14836802', '14945325', '15012782', '14945329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5764947085959236
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5802597007495242
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5768712078112836
- Mean Citation Score: 280.51794600000005
- Max Citation Score: 543.565
- Similarity Product: 384.11109218329193

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