PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161757
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["726", "012000"]

Abstract:
A network device allows inbound connections from external addresses to a computer on a local network while forbidding output connections from the computer to that external address unless preceded by an inbound connection therefrom. In some embodiments, the computer is allowed to accept inbound connections from external addresses but is not permitted to initiate outbound connections to other computers in the local network unless preceded by an inbound connection. In some embodiments, a request from an external address is processed by the network device by transmitting network information for the computer to the external address and temporarily changes network rules to allow connections from the external address. In some embodiments, if the computer attempts a disallowed connection, the connection attempt is routed through a proxy server by providing network data for the proxy server to the computer.

Claim (Index 1):
A first device for networking coupled to a local network and having at least one connection to an external network, the first device including a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program having computer executable instructions for causing the first device to:\n (a) receive one or more inbound connections, each inbound connection being addressed to a second device coupled to the local network and received from a source address in the external network and outside of the local network, (b) record the source address as one of one or more stored source addresses for the one or more inbound connections; and (c) for each outbound connection of one or more outbound connections received from the second device:\n (i) compare an external address of the each outbound connection to the one or more stored source addresses for the one or more inbound connections, the external address of the each outbound connection being in the external network; \n (ii) in accordance with the external address matching any of the one or more stored source addresses, permit transmission of the each outbound connection to the external address of the each outbound connection; and \n (iii) in accordance with the external address not matching any of the one or more stored source addresses, block transmission of the each outbound connection to the external address of the each outbound connection.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33871
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15040762', '16161817', '16161865', '15040655', '15040697']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3285911824332555
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5473093362440097
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3504629978143309
- Mean Citation Score: 369.792012
- Max Citation Score: 394.37573
- Similarity Product: 340.50181224549715

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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