PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891875
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["370", "218000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for operating a virtual node in a LAG that includes a first virtual node and a second virtual node are disclosed. The first virtual node includes at least a first fellow node and a second fellow node. In one exemplary method, the first fellow node receives, from the second virtual node, first control information comprising a system ID and first configuration information associated with the LAG. The first control information is compared with reference configuration information representing previously established expected configuration information associated with the LAG. Based on that comparison, and at least one additional criterion, a split brain condition may be determined to exist in the LAG. In a complementary fashion, a fellow node of the second virtual node may be configured to alter its transmitted configuration information depending on whether it is able to communicate with its fellow node in the second virtual node.

Claim (Index 5):
A network node configured for use as a first portal system in a Link Aggregation Group (LAG), the LAG comprising a first portal and a second portal, the first portal comprising the first portal system and a second portal system, the first portal system comprising:\n input/output circuitry configured to communicate with one or more LAG nodes; and processing circuitry operatively connected to the input/output circuitry and configured to:\n transmit first control information to the second portal if the first portal system is communicatively connected to the second portal system, wherein the first control information comprises a system ID and first configuration information associated with the LAG; and \n transmit second control information to the second portal if the first portal system is not communicatively connected to the second portal system, wherein the second control information comprises the system ID and second configuration information associated with the LAG with the first configuration information being different than the second configuration information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15463292', '14400619', '14257360', '15339162', '14838353']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5166968174296135
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6024448776906315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5252716234557153
- Mean Citation Score: 376.683844
- Max Citation Score: 537.4708
- Similarity Product: 467.8092405508519

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

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