PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974376
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "357000"]

Abstract:
A network switching system and method and a computer program product for operating a network switch are disclosed. The network switch includes a multitude of input ports and a multitude of output ports. In one embodiment, one processing device is assigned to each of the input ports and output ports to process data packets received at the input ports and transferred to the output ports. In one embodiment, the method comprises creating an intermediate adjustable configuration of processing devices functionally between the input ports and the output ports, and assigning the processing devices of the intermediate configuration to forward the data packets from the input ports to the output ports to obtain a balance between latency and synchronization of the transfer of the data packets from the input ports to the output ports. In an embodiment, software is used to create and to adjust dynamically the intermediate configuration.

Claim (Index 15):
The network switching system according to  claim 11 , wherein the eliminating one or more of the tiers of the intermediate processing devices in the intermediate adjustable configuration at other specified times to adjust the switch latency includes, if there is not contention for said synchronization, eliminating one of the tiers of the intermediate adjustable configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53226
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13861850', '10511613', '11169972', '10339796', '09652322']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5045169736563685
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5260995094928246
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5066752272400141
- Mean Citation Score: 194.025788
- Max Citation Score: 328.7749
- Similarity Product: 266.1779604767204

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