PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15889224
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
Example methods are provided for packet handling based on virtual network configuration information in a software-defined networking (SDN) environment. An example comprises a first host obtaining virtual network configuration information that specifies a first virtual object identifier (ID) and a first address associated with a first virtualized computing instance, and a second virtual object ID and a second address associated with a second virtualized computing instance. In response to detecting an egress packet with an inner header that is addressed from the first address to the second address, the first host may generate an encapsulated packet by encapsulating the egress packet with an outer header that specifies the second virtual object ID; and send the encapsulated packet to the second host to cause the second host to decapsulate the outer header and, based on the second virtual object ID, send the egress packet to the second virtualized computing instance.

Claim (Index 18):
The host of  claim 15 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:\n detect, from the first virtualized computing instance, a further packet that includes an inner header addressed from the first address to a third address that is not specified in the virtual network configuration information; generate a further encapsulated packet by encapsulating the further packet with an outer header that specifies the first virtual object ID; and send the further encapsulated packet to a gateway to cause the gateway to decapsulate the outer header, perform a network address translation (NAT) operation associated with the first virtual object ID, and forward a decapsulated packet to an external network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51562
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15678135', '15630933', '15879447', '15609001', '15437462']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5933930581341462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5169697864241067
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5857507309631422
- Mean Citation Score: 262.92899
- Max Citation Score: 323.65213
- Similarity Product: 253.2440270892108

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