PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16130631
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
Methods and network devices are disclosed for traversal, within a network configured for bit indexed forwarding, of a subnetwork having nodes not configured for bit indexed forwarding. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a first network node not configured for bit indexed forwarding, a data message comprising a local label and a message bit array. Bit values in the message bit array identify intended destination nodes for the message. The embodiment further includes modifying the message bit array to exclude as intended destination nodes for the message any nodes not represented by one or more relative bit positions associated with the local label and stored in an ingress filter data structure. In addition, the embodiment includes forwarding a copy of the data message to a second network node, which is configured for bit indexed forwarding, identified in an accessed entry of a bit indexed forwarding table.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, comprising:\n receiving, from a first network node not configured for bit indexed forwarding, a data message comprising a local label and a message bit array, wherein\n each of a plurality of network destination nodes is represented by a relative bit position within the message bit array, and \n bit values in the message bit array identify intended destination nodes for the message from among the plurality of network destination nodes; \n modifying the message bit array to exclude as intended destination nodes for the message any nodes not represented by one or more relative bit positions associated with the local label and stored in an ingress filter data structure; subsequent to the modifying, accessing an entry in a bit indexed forwarding table corresponding to a relative bit position of an intended destination node for the message; and forwarding a copy of the data message comprising a forwarded message bit array to a second network node identified in the accessed forwarding table entry, wherein the second network node is configured for bit indexed forwarding.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23611
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15582090', '15487626', '15474583', '14536182', '15347443']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5448289354977117
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5545757202218402
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5458036139701246
- Mean Citation Score: 339.423826
- Max Citation Score: 408.8416
- Similarity Product: 402.40761217746734

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

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