PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876077
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure herein describes a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) gateway. During operation, the VXLAN gateway receives, from a physical host, an Ethernet packet destined for a virtual machine residing in a remote layer-2 network broadcast domain that is different from a local layer-2 network broadcast domain where the physical host resides. The VXLAN gateway then determines a VXLAN identifier for the received Ethernet packet. The VXLAN gateway further encapsulates the Ethernet packet with the virtual extensible local area network identifier and an Internet Protocol (IP) header, and forwards the encapsulated packet to an IP network, thereby allowing the packet to be transported to the virtual machine via the IP network and allowing the remote layer-2 network broadcast domain and the local layer-2 network broadcast domain to be part of a common layer-2 broadcast domain.

Claim (Index 31):
The method of  claim 22 , wherein the server is a first server, the local layer-2 network broadcast domain is a first local layer-2 network broadcast domain, the encapsulated packet is a first encapsulated packet, the Ethernet packet is a first Ethernet packet, the machine is a first machine, the remote layer-2 network broadcast domain is a first remote layer-2 network domain, and the VXLAN identifier is a first VXLAN identifier, the method further comprising:\n receiving, through the IP network, a second encapsulated packet that originated from a second machine residing in a second remote layer-2 network broadcast domain; decapsulating the second packet by removing an IP header of the second packet and identifying a second VXLAN identifier for the packet, wherein a second Ethernet packet remains after decapsulation; and based at least in part on the second VXLAN identifier, determining that a destination for the second Ethernet packet is a second server separate from the physical device implementing the VXLAN gateway, the second server residing in the second local layer-2 network broadcast domain; and forwarding the second Ethernet packet to the second server on the second local layer-2 network broadcast domain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36508
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15441212', '14961801', '13791264', '13954884', '13689633']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6107167501000967
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6156032838816001
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6112054034782471
- Mean Citation Score: 488.903074
- Max Citation Score: 573.9935
- Similarity Product: 505.5437490183413

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