PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916144
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of a virtual output queue system within a network element enables per-input port virtual output queues within a network data processor of the network element. In one embodiment, each port managed by a network data processor has an associated set of virtual output queues for each output port on the network data element. In one embodiment, network data processor hardware supports per-processor VOQs and per-input port VOQs are enabled in hardware for layer 3 forwarding by overloading layer 2 forwarding logic. In such embodiment, a mapping table is generated to enable virtual per-input port VOQs for layer 3 forwarding logic using layer 2 logic that is otherwise unused during layer 3 forwarding. In one embodiment, multiple traffic classes can be managed per-input port when using per-input port VOQs. In one embodiment, equal cost multi-path (ECMP) and link aggregation support is also enabled.

Claim (Index 11):
The network element as in  claim 7 , wherein the ingress data pipeline is to forward the one of the units of first set of network data to the egress data pipeline after the scheduling credit is granted by the egress data pipeline.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12162
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14989573', '10059641', '15378196', '13570419', '14685101']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.60211177472251
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5701772225756297
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5989183195078219
- Mean Citation Score: 322.886944
- Max Citation Score: 483.0725
- Similarity Product: 381.39950105696914

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

Dataset: test