PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899242
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus of a network element that processes network data in an equal cost multi-path (ECMP) group is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element receives the network data, where the network data is part of network data flow. In addition, the network element detects that the network data flow is a new network data flow and selects a transmitting nexthop from a plurality of nexthops of the ECMP group. The network element further maps the new network flow to a slot of a table in an ECMP group and transmits the network data using the transmitting nexthop.

Claim (Index 20):
A method to install an equal cost multi-path (ECMP) nexthop selection function in a network element, the method comprising:\n receiving information regarding a plurality of network element in a network; selecting a subset of network elements from the plurality of network elements, wherein each of the network elements in the subset share a class and participate in an ECMP group; determining the ECMP next selection function for the subset of network elements; and sending a command to each of the network elements in the subset of network elements, wherein the command instructs the each of network elements to install the ECMP next selection function and the each of the network elements uses the ECMP next selection function to make ECMP nexthop decisions using the ECMP group.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2449
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15409398', '15810065', '15670055', '10975201', '12772528']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4878720255017921
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4966574472038943
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4887505676720023
- Mean Citation Score: 189.250952
- Max Citation Score: 207.21402
- Similarity Product: 140.99873510975002

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