PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881663
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
For a multi-tenant environment, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for (1) embedding a specific path for a tenant's data message flow through a network in tunnel headers encapsulating the data message flow, and then (2) using the embedded path information to direct the data message flow through the network. In some embodiments, the method selects the specific path from two or more viable such paths through the network for the data message flow.

Claim (Index 11):
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for selecting a path for a data message flow through a subset of the forwarding elements to a destination in a multi-tenant network comprising a plurality of forwarding elements, the data message flow associated with a particular tenant, the program for execution by a set of hardware processing units of a computer, the program comprising sets of instructions for:\n identifying a type of content carried by the data message flow; from a plurality of candidate paths to the destination, selecting a path to the destination by using the identified content type of the data message flow; and forwarding the data messages of the flow along the selected path by encapsulating the data messages with tunnel headers that includes a description of the selected path and a tenant identifier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77551
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15881652', '14929403', '14929401', '14929404', '14929399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5814770257322083
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5598519566256189
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5793145188215494
- Mean Citation Score: 312.88359
- Max Citation Score: 442.06
- Similarity Product: 387.6001844573021

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