PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916144
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of a virtual output queue system within a network element enables per-input port virtual output queues within a network data processor of the network element. In one embodiment, each port managed by a network data processor has an associated set of virtual output queues for each output port on the network data element. In one embodiment, network data processor hardware supports per-processor VOQs and per-input port VOQs are enabled in hardware for layer 3 forwarding by overloading layer 2 forwarding logic. In such embodiment, a mapping table is generated to enable virtual per-input port VOQs for layer 3 forwarding logic using layer 2 logic that is otherwise unused during layer 3 forwarding. In one embodiment, multiple traffic classes can be managed per-input port when using per-input port VOQs. In one embodiment, equal cost multi-path (ECMP) and link aggregation support is also enabled.

Claim (Index 14):
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processing units of a network element, cause the one or more processing units to perform operations to forward a first set of network data, the operations comprising:\n receiving the first set of network data at a first ingress port of the network element, wherein units of the first set of network data belong to a plurality of traffic classes; determining an egress port for the first set of network data via a network layer data header; and buffering the units of the first set of network data in a plurality of traffic class virtual output queue (VOQ) associated with each of the first ingress port and the egress port, wherein the traffic class VOQ is determined at least in part based on the egress port and the first ingress port and each of the plurality of traffic class VOQs is associated with a different one of the plurality of traffic classes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12162
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14989573', '10059641', '15378196', '13570419', '14685101']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5699570749056714
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5755830909809267
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5705196765131969
- Mean Citation Score: 322.886944
- Max Citation Score: 483.0725
- Similarity Product: 425.1487441389263

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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