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 16):
An article of manufacture comprising:\n at least one tangible computer readable non-transitory hardware device having computer readable program code logic tangibly embodied therein to operate a network switch including a multitude of input ports and a multitude of output ports, and wherein one hardware 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, the computer readable program code logic, when executing, performing the following: creating an intermediate adjustable topological configuration of intermediate hardware processing devices functionally arranged in one or more tiers between the input ports and the output ports for transferring the data packets from the input ports to the output ports, and wherein said transferring includes a switch latency for the transferring of the data packets from the input ports to the output ports, and a synchronization of the data packets to reduce contention of the data packets for the intermediate processing devices; assigning the intermediate hardware processing devices of the intermediate adjustable configuration to forward the data packets from the input ports to the output ports in accordance with a specified configuration topology of the intermediate processing devices; adding additional tiers of the intermediate processing devices in the intermediate adjustable configuration at first specified times to adjust said synchronization; and 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.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53226
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13861850', '10511613', '11169972', '10339796', '09652322']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4750033591797485
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5178833282222903
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4792913560840027
- Mean Citation Score: 194.025788
- Max Citation Score: 328.7749
- Similarity Product: 324.39670627385976

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

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