PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15753471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "419000"]

Abstract:
A network device may include a first forwarding board, a second forwarding board and an interface board. The interface board may include a control apparatus and a network interface chip. The control apparatus may form a first upstream packet flow which is sent to the first forwarding board via a first I/O bus and a second upstream packet flow which is sent to the second forwarding board via a second I/O bus using data packets received through the network interface chip from the exterior of the network device. The control apparatus may selectively connect one of a first downstream packet flow and a second downstream packet flow to the network interface chip through the network interface bus according to an active/standby state of the first forwarding board and the second forwarding board, wherein the first downstream packet flow is processed by the first forwarding board and received through the first I/O bus and the second downstream packet flow is processed by the second forwarding board and received through the second I/O bus.

Claim (Index 4):
The network device of  claim 2 , wherein the control apparatus further comprises:\n a state identifying module, to record an active/standby state of the first forwarding board and the second forwarding board by using a control pin of the first CPU and a control pin of the second CPU; and the selecting and switching component is further to connect the first downstream packet flow to the network interface chip through the network interface bus in response to a determination that the first forwarding board is an active forwarding board according to the active/standby state recorded by the state identifying module; to connect the second downstream packet flow to the network interface chip through the network interface bus in response to a determination that the second forwarding board is an active forwarding board according to the active/standby state recorded by the state identifying module, wherein the first downstream packet flow is processed by the first forwarding board and received through the first I/O bus and the second downstream packet flow is processed by the second forwarding board and received through the second I/O bus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.63265
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15771963', '15551363', '14143996', '15361750', '13580631']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5515334887432891
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4859344816256689
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5449735880315272
- Mean Citation Score: 172.10596400000003
- Max Citation Score: 232.76663
- Similarity Product: 186.39336318726123

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