PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959415
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A network device is disclosed. The network device comprises a processor. The processor may be obtain information of devices that are connected to the network device and, together with the network device, form a duster of network devices; obtain, for each network device in the duster of network devices, a plurality of parameters indicative of the connectivity of the network devices with one another; assign, based on the plurality of parameters, a grouping structure, whereby each network device in the cluster of network devices is assigned to a group according to a common value of the parameters shared by the network device and other network devices in the group; and assign, based on the grouping structure, each network device in the cluster of network devices as either an active device or a backup device, each active device having a corresponding backup device. Each backup device may be in a group which has no overlap with the group of the corresponding active device. A computer-implemented method and a non-transitory machine-readable medium are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 9):
A computer-implemented method comprising:\n determining a plurality of connectivity parameters associated with each network controller in a cluster of network controllers; allocating, based on the plurality of connectivity parameters, a first set of network controllers comprising a first network controller in the cluster to a first group, wherein the first set of network controllers share at least a common value for the plurality of connectivity parameters; allocating, based on the plurality of connectivity parameters, a second set of network controllers comprising a second network controller in the cluster to a second group that has no overlap with the first group, wherein the second set of network controllers share at least another common value for the plurality of connectivity parameters; designating the first network controller as an active controller; and designating the second network controller as a standby controller to serve as a backup to the first network controller designated as the active controller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69014
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14727773', '14274399', '15941301', '13186272', '13842067']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5011424331407119
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4798402781495514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4990122176415959
- Mean Citation Score: 121.24324
- Max Citation Score: 127.45733
- Similarity Product: 80.2023336999738

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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