PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011462
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["709", "222000"]

Abstract:
An example method is provided and includes configuring a service on a network element; associating a directly connected port with the service to create a port channel between the network element and a directly connected service appliance, the port channel comprising a plurality of member ports; performing an auto-discovery process for each of the member ports; and, upon successful completion of the performing, indicating on the network element that the service appliance is operational. In certain embodiments, the network element includes an intelligent service card manager module (“ISCM”) that forms part of a Remote Integrated Service Engine (“RISE”) element with a corresponding intelligent service card client module (“ISCC”) installed on the service appliance. The method may further include, upon unsuccessful completion of the auto-discovery process, repeating the auto-discovery process.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, comprising:\n creating a port channel between a network element and a directly connected service appliance, the port channel comprising a plurality of member ports; performing an auto-discovery process for each of the member ports, comprising:\n sending a request message from an intelligent service card manager module (\u201cISCM\u201d) to a Layer 2 Platform Dependent (\u201cL2PD\u201d) adapter disposed in the service appliance via the member port; \n reformatting the request message by the L2PD adapter and forwarding the reformatted request message to a corresponding intelligent service card client module (\u201cISCC\u201d) installed on the service appliance; \n responding to the received reformatted request message by the ISCC and forwarding a response message to the L2PD adapter; and \n reformatting the received response message by the L2PD adaptor and forwarding the reformatted response message to the ISCM via the member port; and \n sending a BOOTSTRAP_4-APP message from the ISCC to an application implemented by the service appliance subsequent to receipt of the reformatted request message; \n upon successful completion of the performing, indicating on the network element that the service appliance is operational and automatically configuring the service appliance as a virtual line card on a switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09589
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14492008', '14710389', '13362227', '14705368', '14705399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2623524477755707
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5760970740316919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2937269104011829
- Mean Citation Score: 306.3600820000001
- Max Citation Score: 533.0102
- Similarity Product: 386.76459361121664

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