PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005506
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["711", "135000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a physical forwarding element that dynamically adjusts the number of flows allowed in a flow table cache. In adjusting, the physical forwarding element initially sets the maximum number of flows allowed in the cache. From the flow table cache, the physical forwarding then iterates through the set maximum number of flows and records the length of time it took to iterate through the flows. Based on the duration, the physical forwarding element then automatically adjusts the size of the flow table cache by increasing or decreasing the number of flows allowed in the cache. Alternatively, the physical forwarding element may choose to keep the cache size the same based on the duration.

Claim (Index 30):
A method of processing packets, the method comprising:\n generating and installing flow entries in a cache, wherein each flow entry is generated using at least one flow entry, from a flow table, that specifies performing a set of actions on incoming packets; validating one or more of the flow entries that are installed in the cache by determining whether a set of actions in each flow entry matches a corresponding flow entry in the flow table; and removing or modifying each flow entry that has a different set of actions than a corresponding flow entry in the flow table in order to improve a performance of packet processing, wherein said generating and installing flow entries are executed in a first execution thread and said validating, removing, and modifying are executed in a second, different execution thread.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2963
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14106379', '14106355', '14804232', '14263989', '14069284']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5685170537126943
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5961741100101046
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5712827593424354
- Mean Citation Score: 365.745688
- Max Citation Score: 499.32184000000007
- Similarity Product: 443.7257460203219

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

Dataset: test