PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959237
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A method for upgrading a set of controller nodes in a controller cluster that manages a plurality of forwarding elements in a way that minimizes dataplane outages. The method of some embodiments upgrades the control applications of a subset of the controller nodes before upgrading a decisive controller node. Once the decisive controller node is upgraded, the method switches the controller cluster to use a new version of the control applications.

Claim (Index 29):
The method of  claim 22 , wherein the forwarding elements comprise a set of logical forwarding elements and a set of physical forwarding elements, wherein managing the forwarding elements with the upgraded first subset of controller nodes further comprises implementing the set of logical forwarding elements on the set of physical forwarding elements according to the new controller state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82927
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14069267', '14231543', '14231527', '15197692', '14840030']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5346974067490726
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5580692841866828
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5370345944928336
- Mean Citation Score: 262.67257
- Max Citation Score: 432.70294
- Similarity Product: 315.6396417881942

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