PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["709", "225000"]

Abstract:
According to one aspect, a method includes an Intercloud Fabric Switch (ICS) included in a public cloud and an ICS cluster obtaining a packet, and determining if the packet is obtained from a site-to-site link that links the ICS to an enterprise datacenter. If the packet is obtained from the site-to-site link, it is determined whether the packet is an unknown unicast packet. If the packet is an unknown unicast packet, the packet is dropped, and if not, the packet is provided to an access link that links the ICS to a virtual machine. If the packet is not obtained from the site-to-site link, it is determined whether the packet is obtained from an inter-ICS link that allows the ICS to communicate with the ICS cluster. If the packet is obtained from the inter-ICS link, the packet is dropped if it is an unknown unicast packet.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a processor; an input/output (I/O) interface, the I/O interface including a site-to-site link interface and an inter-Intercloud Fabric Switch (inter-ICS) link interface, the I/O interface configured to obtain a packet; and an Intercloud Fabric (ICF) logic module, the ICF logic module including computer program code configured to be executed by the processor, the ICF logic module being arranged to determine when the packet is obtained on the I/O interface from a site-to-site link interface that allows communication with an enterprise datacenter and, when it is determined that the packet is obtained from the site-to-site link interface, the ICF logic module is arranged to determine whether the packet is an unknown unicast packet and to drop the packet when it is determined that the packet is the unknown unicast packet, wherein if it is determined that the packet is not obtained from the site-to-site link interface, the ICF logic module is arranged to determine whether the packet is obtained on the inter-ICS link interface and, when it is determined that the packet is obtained from the inter-ICS link interface, the ICF logic module is arranged to determine whether the packet is the unknown unicast packet and dropping the packet when it is determined that the packet is the unknown unicast packet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09615
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14743714', '14749391', '15417021', '14804248', '14876092']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.269565573315338
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5565002583086328
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2982590418146674
- Mean Citation Score: 231.951856
- Max Citation Score: 451.70013
- Similarity Product: 363.68072022411707

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

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