PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019286
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, new Segment Routing capabilities are used in the steering of packets through Segment Routing nodes in a network. A Segment List includes a set of one or more Segment List (SL) Groups, each of which identifies one or more Segments contiguously or non-contiguously stored in the Segment List (or stored across multiple Segment Lists) of a Segment Routing packet. Each SL Group typically includes one Segment that is encoded as a Segment Identifier, and may include Segments that are Extended Values. The steering order of SL Groups is not required to be the same order as they are listed in the Segment List, as the value of Segments Left may be increased, remain the same, or decreased (possibly to skip a next SL Group) and possibly based on the result of an evaluation of a conditional expression.

Claim (Index 13):
A method, comprising:\n receiving a particular Segment Routing packet by a first Segment Routing node in a network, with the particular Segment Routing packet including an outer IP header having an Internet Protocol (IP) Destination Address with a value of a first Segment Identifier that is an address of the first Segment Routing node, the particular Segment Routing packet including a particular Segment Routing Header that includes a Segments Left value and a Segment List, with the Segment List comprising a first Segment List Group (SL Group) including the first Segment Identifier, a second SL Group including a second Segment Identifier, and a third SL Group including a third Segment Identifier, and with the Segments Left value identifying a position in the Segment List of the first Segment Identifier in the first SL Group; identifying, by the first Segment Routing node, a first Segment Routing function based on the first Segment Identifier; performing particular processing according to the first Segment Routing function, with said particular processing including performing a particular conditional branching operation that selects a next SL Group from a plurality of selectable next SL Groups in the Segment List based on a result of the evaluation of a conditional expression, with the plurality of selectable next SL Groups including the second SL Group and the third SL Group; and sending into the network the particular Segment Routing packet after updating by the first Segment Routing node in response to said selection of the next SL Group, with said updating resulting in the Segments Left value identifying the position of said selected next SL Group in the Segment List of said sent particular Segment Routing packet and setting the IP Destination Address based on said a selected Segment Identifier in the next SL Group.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16006897', '15783753', '15922894', '15841276', '15925731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.53883250603939
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.477623539649897
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5327116094004407
- Mean Citation Score: 207.502486
- Max Citation Score: 221.94373
- Similarity Product: 180.9129916019893

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