PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876077
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure herein describes a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) gateway. During operation, the VXLAN gateway receives, from a physical host, an Ethernet packet destined for a virtual machine residing in a remote layer-2 network broadcast domain that is different from a local layer-2 network broadcast domain where the physical host resides. The VXLAN gateway then determines a VXLAN identifier for the received Ethernet packet. The VXLAN gateway further encapsulates the Ethernet packet with the virtual extensible local area network identifier and an Internet Protocol (IP) header, and forwards the encapsulated packet to an IP network, thereby allowing the packet to be transported to the virtual machine via the IP network and allowing the remote layer-2 network broadcast domain and the local layer-2 network broadcast domain to be part of a common layer-2 broadcast domain.

Claim (Index 32):
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program which when executed by a set of processing units of a physical device separate from sources and destinations of packets in a network implements a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) gateway, the program comprising sets of instructions for:\n through an IP network to which the physical device implementing the gateway connects, receiving an encapsulated packet that originated from a virtual machine residing in a remote layer-2 network broadcast domain; decapsulating the packet by removing an IP header of the packet and identifying a VXLAN identifier for the packet, wherein an Ethernet packet remains after decapsulation; based at least in part on the VXLAN identifier, determining that a destination for the Ethernet packet is a server separate from the physical device implementing the gateway, the server residing in a local layer-2 network broadcast domain that is different from the remote layer-2 network broadcast domain; and forwarding the Ethernet packet to the server on the local layer-2 network broadcast domain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36508
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15441212', '14961801', '13791264', '13954884', '13689633']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.609736733761232
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6181187297619446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6105749333613034
- Mean Citation Score: 488.903074
- Max Citation Score: 573.9935
- Similarity Product: 515.2719873476923

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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