PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016080
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes traffic forwarding in a network where a virtual local area network (VLAN) exists in multiple network sites that are geographically dispersed and connected via virtual links. A first edge device (ED) at a first site receives, from a second ED at a second site, information identifying a VLAN of the second ED through a virtual link. The VLAN identified in the information is an active VLAN of the second ED. An association between (i) the VLAN of the second ED and (ii) the virtual link through which the information is received from the second ED is recorded. When forwarding traffic to the VLAN of the second ED, it is determined the virtual link associated with the VLAN of the second ED is determined based on the recorded association and the traffic is forwarded via the determined virtual link.

Claim (Index 21):
The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 16 , wherein the instructions are to cause the processor of the first ED to:\n receive, from the third ED at the second site via the second virtual link, information identifying that a second VLAN at the second site is an active VLAN of the third ED; record in the table an association between the second VLAN at the second site and the second virtual link connected between the first ED and the third ED; when forwarding traffic to the second VLAN at the second site, determine from the recorded associations in the table that the second VLAN at the second site is associated with the second virtual link; and based on the determination from the recorded associations, forward the traffic via the second virtual link to the third ED at the second site and not via the first virtual link of the second ED.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39394
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14372817', '13939667', '14373888', '15788378', '14768443']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5427716185974385
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5202289004759256
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5405173467852872
- Mean Citation Score: 195.239424
- Max Citation Score: 317.76678
- Similarity Product: 253.3972869843685

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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