PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16039087
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "200000"]

Abstract:
A control apparatus includes: a first control information setting unit configured to set first control information for forwarding packets between predetermined machines in relay apparatuses on a predetermined path on the basis of a first hierarchical address; and a second control information setting unit configured to set, when receiving a packet whose destination address is a second hierarchical address, which is a higher level address than the first hierarchical address, from one of the machines in which the first control information has already been set, via one of the relay apparatuses, second control information for converting a first hierarchical destination address of the packet whose destination address is the second hierarchical address into a first hierarchical address specified in the first control information and forwarding the converted packet, in the relay apparatus.

Claim (Index 8):
A control apparatus, comprising:\n a specific links management unit configured to grasp, among relay apparatuses that are controlled by the control apparatus, a link status between each pair of relay apparatuses connected to each other via a network that is not controlled by the control apparatus; a topology management unit configured to establish topology information on the basis of information acquired from the relay apparatuses that are controlled by the control apparatus and update the topology information on the basis of a link status between each pair of relay apparatuses connected to each other via the network that is not controlled by the control apparatus; a path management unit configured to calculate a packet forwarding path between machines that are connected to respective relay apparatuses of the relay apparatuses on the basis of topology information including a link between each pair of relay apparatuses that are connected to each other via the network that is not controlled by the control apparatus and generate control information for causing relay apparatuses on the forwarding path to forward packets on the forwarding path; and a relay apparatus communication unit configured to set the control information in the relevant relay apparatuses; wherein, among the relay apparatuses on the forwarding path that extends through the network that is not controlled by the control apparatus, the control apparatus causes a relay apparatus that is located immediately before the network that is not controlled by the control apparatus to rewrite header information so that packets are allowed to pass through the network that is not controlled by the control apparatus; and wherein, among the relay apparatuses on the forwarding path that extends through the network that is not controlled by the control apparatus, the control apparatus causes a relay apparatus that is located immediately after the network that is not controlled by the control apparatus to restore the rewritten header information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61111
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14647428', '14376835', '14237849', '14399158', '15059523']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5746977490056155
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5388154843405917
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5711095225391132
- Mean Citation Score: 301.84335
- Max Citation Score: 406.2854
- Similarity Product: 269.7435879584789

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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