PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937085
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for handling a digital electronic flow between a first and second entity in which a flow policy is determined that is to be applied to the flow and the flow is then directed along a path in accordance with the policy. An ID is supplied for each flow and a tag associated with each flow which indicates the policy to be applied to its associated flow. Flows are also associated with one another, with associated flows having associated policies. In particular the flow may be processed or forwarded. The path may include a graph structure and virtual applications.

Claim (Index 43):
A method involving a special purpose processor subsystem, wherein the special purpose processor subsystem is adapted to be coupled to a general purpose processor subsystem such that the special purpose processor subsystem and the general purpose processor subsystem together comprise an apparatus, wherein the special purpose processor subsystem comprises a plurality of processing components, wherein a plurality of application layer programs are executing on the general purpose processor subsystem, and wherein the method comprises:\n (a) maintaining a flow policy database on the apparatus, wherein a first flow policy is recorded in the flow policy database, and wherein a second flow policy is recorded in the flow policy database; (b) receiving a digital electronic flow onto the special purpose processor subsystem via a network interface of the special purpose processor subsystem; (c) on the special purpose processor subsystem generating a flow identifier (flow ID) and a first flow policy tag based at least in part on datagram header information of a datagram of the digital electronic flow, wherein the first flow policy tag identifies the first flow policy, and wherein the first flow policy specifies a first path through the processing components and the application layer programs of the apparatus and out of the apparatus; (d) including the first flow policy tag in datagrams of the digital electronic flow; (e) using the first flow policy tag to direct the datagrams of the digital electronic flow along the first path; (f) changing the flow policy tag included in datagrams of the digital electronic flow from the first policy tag to a second flow policy tag, wherein the second flow policy tag identifies the second flow policy, and wherein the second flow policy specifies a second path through the processing components and the application layer programs of the apparatus and out of the apparatus; and (g) using the second flow policy tag to direct datagrams of the digital electronic flow along the second path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14587513', '13337184', '15078916', '15479238', '15621967']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5569030214494369
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.514142613985689
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5526269807030622
- Mean Citation Score: 200.181942
- Max Citation Score: 304.35925
- Similarity Product: 223.9241424453556

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