PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969326
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
Measures, including methods, systems, non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums and computer programs for use in routing packet data. At a network switching device, a data packet is received from a device located upstream of the network switching device. The received data packet comprises routing data associated with a routing decision which has been taken for the data packet upstream of the network switching device. The routing data comprises an abstract media access control (MAC) address corresponding to a next hop destination for the data packet located downstream of the network switching device. At the network switching device, the abstract MAC address in the data packet is replaced with a real MAC address of the next hop downstream destination. At the network switching device, the data packet is forwarded towards the next hop downstream destination.

Claim (Index 6):
The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 1 , wherein the abstract MAC address is comprised in a dedicated range of abstract MAC addresses which are different from the real MAC addresses of one or more respective downstream destinations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49153
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14527575', '14047325', '15717638', '14255815', '14231616']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5355307346683124
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5552175622902509
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5374994174305062
- Mean Citation Score: 267.007898
- Max Citation Score: 404.26343
- Similarity Product: 310.3862943306011

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