PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16025600
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method for programming a network element to granularly track network traffic traversing through one or more network elements.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n receiving a network packet from one selected from a group consisting of another network element and a source device; processing the network packet to obtain a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address; identifying the first FIB entry in the FIB, wherein the first network prefix in the first FIB entry is a longest prefix match (LPM) for the destination IP address; obtaining, based on the identifying, the first FEC index from the first FIB entry; identifying the first FEC entry in the FEC table using the first FEC index; obtaining, based on the identifying, the BNHI from the first FEC entry; and transmitting, based on the BNHI, the network packet towards a destination associated with the destination IP address.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.16
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15066913', '12886439', '14524890', '13938104', '15244613']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4895930088768314
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5106632981757943
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4917000378067276
- Mean Citation Score: 224.012606
- Max Citation Score: 271.36667
- Similarity Product: 192.5479358164978

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

Dataset: test