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 1):
An apparatus comprising a plurality of network ports configured to serially replicate multicast traffic, the multicast traffic including a first multicast traffic and a second multicast traffic so as to forward, via a network, replicated multicast traffic to a plurality of computing devices, wherein each multicast traffic comprises one or more packets to be directed to multiple destination flows, the apparatus comprising:\n a Multicast Expansion Table (MET), implemented in memory of the apparatus, comprising a plurality of entries each associated with a network port of the plurality of network ports, wherein traversal of the plurality of entries of the Multicast Expansion Table, for a given multicast traffic, defines a sequence of the serial replication of the given multicast traffic over one or more sets of network ports, wherein packets associated with the first multicast traffic are serially replicated over a first set of network ports in accordance with a first sequence corresponding to a first traversal of the entries in the Multicast Expansion Table, and wherein packets associated with the second multicast traffic are serially replicated in accordance with a second sequence corresponding to a second traversal of the entries of the Multicast Expansion Table, 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): 0.5336409266089287
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5150401388813524
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5317808478361711
- Mean Citation Score: 182.721924
- Max Citation Score: 330.0798
- Similarity Product: 317.1225885554552

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