PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891875
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["370", "218000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for operating a virtual node in a LAG that includes a first virtual node and a second virtual node are disclosed. The first virtual node includes at least a first fellow node and a second fellow node. In one exemplary method, the first fellow node receives, from the second virtual node, first control information comprising a system ID and first configuration information associated with the LAG. The first control information is compared with reference configuration information representing previously established expected configuration information associated with the LAG. Based on that comparison, and at least one additional criterion, a split brain condition may be determined to exist in the LAG. In a complementary fashion, a fellow node of the second virtual node may be configured to alter its transmitted configuration information depending on whether it is able to communicate with its fellow node in the second virtual node.

Claim (Index 2):
A method of operating a virtual node in a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) comprising a first portal at one end of a LAG link and a second portal at the other end of the LAG link, wherein the first portal comprises first and second portal systems, the method comprising the first portal system:\n transmitting first control information to the second portal if the first portal system is communicatively connected to the second portal system, wherein the first control information comprises a system ID and first configuration information associated with the LAG; and transmitting second control information to the second portal if the first portal system is not communicatively connected to the second portal system, wherein the second control information comprises the system ID and second configuration information associated with the LAG with the first configuration information being different than the second configuration information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15463292', '14400619', '14257360', '15339162', '14838353']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5167534879928366
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.602309410104451
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.525309080203998
- Mean Citation Score: 376.683844
- Max Citation Score: 537.4708
- Similarity Product: 467.2183089936257

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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