PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916601
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "355000"]

Abstract:
A multicast system includes a source device and a plurality of receiver devices connected by switches that are also coupled to a switch controller. The switch controller receives source device information for the source device from its connected first switch, and receives receiver device information for each of the receiver devices from their respective connected second switches. The switch controller uses the source device information and receiver device information to construct a multicast tree that includes switches capable of transmitting multicast communications from the source device to each of the receiver devices. The switch controller then programs at least some of the switches so that a multicast data communication from the source device is segment routed to a third switch, and replicated by the third switch to produce replicated multicast data communications that are each segment routed to at least some of the receiver devices through their respective second switches.

Claim (Index 14):
A method for multicasting, comprising:\n receiving, by a switch controller device from a first switch device that is directly connected to a source host device, source host device information that was communicated by the source host device to the first switch device; receiving, by the switch controller device from respective second switch devices that are each directly connected to a respective one of a plurality of receiver host devices, receiver host device information that was communicated by each respective receiver host device to its respective directly connected second switch device; construct, by the switch controller device using the source host device information and each of the receiver host device information, a multicast tree that includes a plurality of switch devices that include the first switch device and the second switch device, and that are capable of transmitting multicast communications between the source host device and each of the plurality of receiver host devices; and programming, by the switch controller device, at least one of the plurality of switch devices such that a multicast data communication generated by the source host device is segment routed by at least some of the plurality of switch devices to a third switch device that is included in the plurality of switch devices, and replicated by the third switch device to produce replicated multicast data communications that are each segment routed by at least some of the plurality of switch devices to at least some of the plurality of receiver host devices through their respective second switch devices

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73684
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11445370', '15852617', '11445353', '13843365', '12980885']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5387482699429589
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4781449984214339
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5326879427908064
- Mean Citation Score: 177.911916
- Max Citation Score: 183.4527
- Similarity Product: 131.06957510973214

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

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