PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948990
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a method for a forwarding element (FE) operating in a network of FEs. The method receives a data message with an access control list (ACL) rule and a first digest for the ACL rule appended to the data message. The ACL rule specifies that the packet is allowed to be sent through the network. The method verifies the ACL rule by computing a second digest from the ACL rule using a secret key and comparing the first digest to the second digest. The method determines whether the packet matches the ACL rule by comparing values in headers of the data message to values specified in the ACL rule. The method only forwards the data message if the ACL rule is verified and the packet matches the ACL rule.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the secret key is received by the FE from a network controller, wherein the network controller provides the secret key to a plurality of the FEs in the network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31148
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15253570', '15097245', '15253562', '13968390', '15588746']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5679390110271775
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.509947474704531
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5621398573949128
- Mean Citation Score: 263.41228800000005
- Max Citation Score: 269.70975
- Similarity Product: 172.30630124594268

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

Dataset: test