PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16286031
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "390000"]

Abstract:
Exemplified systems and methods facilitate multicasting latency optimization operations for router, switches, and other network devices, for routed Layer-3 multicast packets to provide even distribution latency and/or selective prioritized distribution of latency among multicast destinations. A list of network destinations for serially-replicated packets is traversed in different sequences from one packet to the next, to provide delay fairness among the listed destinations. The list of network destinations are mapped to physical network ports, virtual ports, or logical ports of the router, switches, or other network devices and, thus, the different sequences are also traversed from these physical network ports, virtual ports, or logical ports. The exemplified systems and methods facilitates the management of traffic that is particularly beneficial in a data center.

Claim (Index 20):
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon, wherein execution of the instructions, cause a processor a network device to cause the network device to:\n in response to receiving, at a network port of the network device, a first packet associated with a first multicast traffic, i) serially replicate, across a first set of network ports of a plurality of network ports associated with the network device, according to a first sequence of the first set of network ports, the first multicast traffic and ii) forward, via a network, the replicated multicast traffic to a plurality of computing devices associated with the first multicast traffic; and in response to receiving a second packet associated with a second multicast traffic, i) serially replicate, across a second set of network ports of a plurality of network ports associated with the network device, according to a second sequence of the second set of network ports, the second multicast traffic and ii) forward, via the network, the replicated multicast traffic to a plurality of computing devices associated with the second multicast traffic, wherein the serial replication of the first multicast traffic and the second multicast traffic is i) based on traversal of a plurality of entries in a Multicast Expansion Table (MET) associated with the network device and ii) based on a sequence list associated therewith, each entry being associated with a network port of the first set of network ports, wherein the first sequence is different from the second sequence.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02941
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15349629', '15091550', '16024985', '14494187', '14494229']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5335384845567787
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.519666594369253
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5321512955380261
- Mean Citation Score: 182.721924
- Max Citation Score: 330.0798
- Similarity Product: 270.0767985797166

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