PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923568
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
A communication device includes: a forwarding unit configured to determine, if a first packet is directed to the communication device, whether or not a forwarding destination address of the first packet can be specified based on a value contained in a first field of the first packet, the forwarding unit setting, if it can be specified, the specified forwarding destination address as the destination address of the first packet and forwarding the first packet; and a processing unit configured to perform, if no forwarding destination address of the first packet can be specified and the first packet includes a request packet that requests an object according to an object name of the object, processing for specifying the forwarding destination of the first request packet based on the object name.

Claim (Index 5):
The communication device according to  claim 3 ,\n wherein an address is set in a second field of the first packet, if a second interface is indicated as the forwarding destination of the first request packet in the first table, the processing unit is further configured to output the first request packet from the second interface, and store, in a second table, a relationship between the object name of the object requested by the first request packet and the address set in the second field, and upon receiving a data packet including an object as a response to the first request packet via the second interface, the processing unit is further configured to encapsulate the data packet to create a third packet, and set the address stored in the second table as a destination address of the created third packet, and the forwarding unit is further configured to forward the third packet via one of the plurality of first interfaces based on the flow table.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72549
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15471953', '14069286', '14726850', '14359860', '14585022']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5258485801267838
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5017873019333728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5234424523074427
- Mean Citation Score: 226.459456
- Max Citation Score: 232.90012
- Similarity Product: 165.79162722574708

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

Dataset: test