PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958818
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A path detection method in a virtual extensible local area network (VxLAN), a controller, and a network device, where the controller constructs a detection packet according to a detection request and sends the detection packet to a source network device corresponding to a source VxLAN tunnel endpoint (VTEP). The source network device forwards, level by level, the detection packet to a destination network device corresponding to a destination VTEP, and reports information such as an Internet Protocol (IP) address, an outbound interface number, and an inbound interface number to the controller level by level. Therefore, a real service path may be detected.

Claim (Index 8):
A controller, comprising:\n a processor configured to construct a detection packet according to a detection request from a user, the detection packet comprising an identifier indicating a path detection service, an endpoint identifier of a source virtual extensible local area network (VxLAN) tunnel endpoint (VTEP), an endpoint identifier of a destination VTEP, a source port value, a path detection type, and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a first network device corresponding to the endpoint identifier of the source VTEP; a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to send the detection packet to the first network device; and a receiver coupled to the processor and the transmitter and configured to:\n receive from the first network device a first reporting message comprising the detection packet, the IP address of the first network device, and outbound and inbound interface numbers of the first network device; and \n receive a reporting message from each level of network device, the reporting message comprising the first reporting message and a second reporting message from a second network device, and \n the processor being further configured to:\n obtain a network path from the first network device to the second network device according to an IP address, an outbound interface number, and an inbound interface number in the reporting message from each level of network device; and \n provide the obtained network path to the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15708760', '15934229', '15401269', '15253834', '14738341']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5254920488477414
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5126753925279158
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5242103832157589
- Mean Citation Score: 266.96786000000003
- Max Citation Score: 300.6258
- Similarity Product: 240.7341420855045

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