PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946630
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "255000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for discovering, testing, and optimizing paths in a network are provided. According to one embodiment, configuration data of a first and second packet forwarding device is obtained by a first and second agent associated with the first and second packet forwarding devices, respectively. Existence of multiple of equal cost links coupling the first and second packet forwarding devices is discovered by a network controller based on the configuration data. For each equal cost link, the network controller then identifies a performance metric and a type of packet transported by the equal cost link by: (i) probing the equal cost link from one side with a variety of test data having different packet characteristics; (ii) recording receipt of the test data on the other side; and (ii) determining the performance metric based on the received test data and timestamps contained within the received test data.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the second agent is executing on the second packet forwarding device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14955912', '13536669', '13536487', '12481151', '13424173']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5742604492640621
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.517220116700272
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.568556416007683
- Mean Citation Score: 221.02548
- Max Citation Score: 292.87134
- Similarity Product: 192.2368620680737

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