PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971443
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
A method for implementing load balancing, an apparatus, and a network system, where a controller obtains a port attribute of each port of a first switch in a mesh network, determines, according to the port attribute of each port of the first switch, a virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to each port of the first switch, where all user-side ports of the first switch correspond to a first virtual routing and forwarding instance, generates a forwarding table of the first switch according to a topology of the mesh network and the virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to each port of the first switch, where a first forwarding entry of the forwarding table includes the first virtual routing and forwarding instance, a destination network segment and at least two forwarding paths corresponding to the destination network segment, and sends the forwarding table to the first switch.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein generating the forwarding table of the first switch comprises:\n obtaining, by the controller, a network segment configured for each of the switches to obtain a plurality of network segments; determining, by the controller, a source network segment and a destination network segment in the network segments, the source network segment comprising any one of the network segments, and the destination network segment comprising any one of the network segments except the source network segment; determining, by the controller according to the topology of the mesh network, N forwarding paths from the source network segment to the destination network segment; generating, by the controller, a route entry corresponding to an i th  forwarding path for each switch other than a destination switch on the i th  forwarding path in the N forwarding paths, each route entry comprising a virtual routing and forwarding instance, a destination network segment, a next hop, and an egress port, and i comprising a natural number less than or equal to N; and determining, by the controller according to all route entries of the first switch, a forwarding path corresponding to each destination network segment of the first switch in each virtual routing and forwarding instance to generate the forwarding table of the first switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.18
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13649026', '15639791', '14337161', '15610233', '15610313']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5496103041927042
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4971830319510455
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5443675769685383
- Mean Citation Score: 230.193308
- Max Citation Score: 236.80928
- Similarity Product: 159.8166113487244

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