PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863297
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "311000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a device in a network sends a first multicast message to a plurality of destinations in the network. The first multicast message includes a first bitmap that identifies the destinations. The device receives one or more acknowledgements from a subset of the destinations. The device determines a retransmission bitmap that identifies those of the plurality of destinations that did not acknowledge the first multicast message, based on the received one or more acknowledgements. The device sends a retransmission multicast message to those of the plurality of destinations that did not acknowledge the first multicast message. The retransmission multicast message includes the retransmission bitmap.

Claim (Index 11):
A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing program instructions that cause a computer to execute a process comprising:\n assign, by the device in a network, each node in the network to a specific bit of a bitmap that represents devices in the network send a first multicast message to a plurality of destinations in the network, wherein the first multicast message includes a first bitmap that identifies the destinations, the first bitmap identifying a particular destination in the plurality of destinations to which the first multicast message is sent by the corresponding specific bit in the first bitmap that is set by the apparatus; receive one or more acknowledgements including acknowledgement bitmaps from a subset of the destinations, each acknowledgment bitmap identifying a particular destination in the plurality of destinations that acknowledged receipt of the first multicast message, and at least one of the acknowledgments including an aggregated acknowledgement bitmap determined by a node in the network by aggregation of individual acknowledgement bitmaps received from the destinations and uniquely identifying the destinations; determine a retransmission bitmap that identifies those of the plurality of destinations that did not acknowledge the first multicast message, based on the received one or more acknowledgements; and send a retransmission multicast message to those of the plurality of destinations that did not acknowledge the first multicast message, wherein the retransmission multicast message includes the retransmission bitmap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14661301', '14661458', '14040844', '12942985', '12942977']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.545633463562827
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5435383451687529
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5454239517234196
- Mean Citation Score: 261.78217400000005
- Max Citation Score: 400.17786
- Similarity Product: 365.3835144975328

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

Dataset: test