PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018973
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are directed to a packet capture ring that provides a single network tap for packet capture and a series of processors (or appliances) for handling serialization and search request processing in a confederated and highly scalable manner. One such appliance (a “primary” appliance) maintains a tap port to the network. Each packet capture appliance has a locally attached repository that stores raw packets and a juxtaposed index that allows for retrieval of those packets. The primary appliance sends a single copy of encapsulated packets in opposite directions around the ring to its descendants. A designation is made across the system as to a “currently designated” appliance for servicing requests for indexing and storage of captured packets. This current designation shifts from appliance to appliance in the system, as a “previously designated” appliance has its storage capacity filled.

Claim (Index 10):
A computer implemented method for transmission of messages of a control protocol (CP) to established protocol peer appliances in a ring, wherein each appliance is configured to listen for and process network packet traffic transmitted on a primary network, such that the traffic is destined for any listening interface on the network; wherein each appliance in the ring is associated with a storage repository for captured packet traffic and is associated with an index; and wherein each appliance includes a plurality of network interfaces used in execution of the capture processing along with processing of the CP messages, the method comprising:\n obtaining, by a network tap appliance comprising a processor and configured to initially receive the network packet traffic via a network tap, a current capacity of the repositories of the appliances of the ring; and altering, by the network tap appliance, a packet storage request from an initially designated repository in response to an initially designated current capacity based on the current capacity of the initially designated repository being equal to or approaching within a predetermined amount capacity limit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80233
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15225472', '15455215', '15179442', '14515043', '12015216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4656660567817382
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5677914024994724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4758785913535116
- Mean Citation Score: 223.94601
- Max Citation Score: 433.3547400000001
- Similarity Product: 415.3893344825864

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