PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938767
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "049000"]

Abstract:
A network system for a data center is described in which a switch fabric provides full mesh interconnectivity such that any servers may communicate packet data to any other of the servers using any of a number of parallel data paths. Moreover, according to the techniques described herein, edge-positioned access nodes, optical permutation devices and core switches of the switch fabric may be configured and arranged in a way such that the parallel data paths provide single L2/L3 hop, full mesh interconnections between any pairwise combination of the access nodes, even in massive data centers having tens of thousands of servers. The plurality of optical permutation devices permute communications across the optical ports based on wavelength so as to provide full-mesh optical connectivity between edge-facing ports and core-facing ports without optical interference.

Claim (Index 1):
A network system comprising:\n a plurality of servers; a switch fabric comprising a plurality of core switches; a plurality of access nodes, each of the access nodes coupled to a subset of the servers to communicate data packets with the servers; and a plurality of optical permutation devices optically coupling the access nodes to the core switches by optical links to communicate the data packets between the access nodes and the core switches as optical signals, wherein each the optical permutation devices comprises a set of input optical ports and a set of output optical ports to direct optical signal between the access nodes and the core switches to communicate the data packets, and wherein each of the optical permutation devices is configured such that optical communications received from the input optical ports are permuted across the output optical ports based on wavelength so as to provide full-mesh optical connectivity between the input optical ports and the output optical ports without optical interference.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70732
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15939041', '15939227', '13528501', '09893493', '14705088']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6932500593553644
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5501281453595195
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6789378679557799
- Mean Citation Score: 257.624366
- Max Citation Score: 366.33044
- Similarity Product: 319.18604214857817

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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