PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16024381
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["370", "216000"]

Abstract:
A network device may generate a route advertisement that includes a media access control (MAC) address. The MAC address may correspond to a data link established between the network device and a customer edge (CE) device. The network device and the CE device may be associated with an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) that includes other network devices that are remote from the CE device. The network device may cause the route advertisement to be outputted over the EVPN. The route advertisement may permit the other network devices to learn that the data link is directly reachable via the MAC address, and may permit the other network devices, when configured as maintenance endpoints (MEPs), to directly address performance monitoring-related unicast packets, intended for the data link, using the MAC address, such that flooding of the performance monitoring-related unicast packets is avoided.

Claim (Index 14):
A network device, comprising:\n one or more memories; and one or more processors to:\n generate a route advertisement that includes a media access control (MAC) address,\n the MAC address corresponding to a data link established between the network device and a customer edge (CE) device, \n the MAC address associated with a physical port, of the network device, to which the CE device is communicatively coupled, \n the network device being multihomed, \n the network device and the CE device being associated with an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN), \n the EVPN including other network devices that are different than the CE device; and \n \n cause the route advertisement to be outputted over the EVPN,\n the route advertisement permitting the other network devices to learn that the data link is directly reachable, without transmitting network traffic to the other network devices on the EVPN, via the MAC address, and enabling the other network devices, when configured as maintenance endpoints (MEPs), to directly address performance monitoring-related unicast packets, intended for the data link, using the MAC address, such that flooding of the performance monitoring-related unicast packets is avoided.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28571
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15942177', '15198948', '14869299', '14019387', '15788378']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5456358702175038
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5272639576101191
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5437986789567654
- Mean Citation Score: 317.601904
- Max Citation Score: 345.59933
- Similarity Product: 285.92139546336057

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

Dataset: test