PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161865
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["726", "001000"]

Abstract:
A network device allows inbound connections from external addresses to a computer on a local network while forbidding output connections from the computer to that external address unless preceded by an inbound connection therefrom. In some embodiments, the computer is allowed to accept inbound connections from external addresses but is not permitted to initiate outbound connections to other computers in the local network unless preceded by an inbound connection. In some embodiments, a request from an external address is processed by the network device by transmitting network information for the computer to the external address and temporarily changes network rules to allow connections from the external address. In some embodiments, if the computer attempts a disallowed connection, the connection attempt is routed through a proxy server by providing network data for the proxy server to the computer.

Claim (Index 10):
A method comprising:\n (a) receiving at a first device a request from a second device for an access to a third device; (b) evaluating, by the first device, whether the second device is allowed to directly access the third device; (c) after performing (b), in accordance with the second device being allowed to directly access the third device, providing, by the first device, the second device with one or more network identifiers of the third device, thereby enabling the second device to connect to the third device while bypassing the first device; and (d) after performing (b), in accordance with the second device not being allowed to directly access the third device, providing the second device with one more network identifiers enabling the second device to connect to the third device through a fourth device using a connection between the third device and the fourth device, thereby enabling the second device to connect to the third device without using the one or more network identifiers of the third device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33871
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15040762', '16161817', '16161757', '15040697', '15040655']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3026626236603301
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5518564712893178
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3275820084232288
- Mean Citation Score: 373.866764
- Max Citation Score: 416.82175
- Similarity Product: 335.2177132019698

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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