PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15753471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "419000"]

Abstract:
A network device may include a first forwarding board, a second forwarding board and an interface board. The interface board may include a control apparatus and a network interface chip. The control apparatus may form a first upstream packet flow which is sent to the first forwarding board via a first I/O bus and a second upstream packet flow which is sent to the second forwarding board via a second I/O bus using data packets received through the network interface chip from the exterior of the network device. The control apparatus may selectively connect one of a first downstream packet flow and a second downstream packet flow to the network interface chip through the network interface bus according to an active/standby state of the first forwarding board and the second forwarding board, wherein the first downstream packet flow is processed by the first forwarding board and received through the first I/O bus and the second downstream packet flow is processed by the second forwarding board and received through the second I/O bus.

Claim (Index 6):
The network device of  claim 4 , wherein the control apparatus further comprises:\n a board configuring module, connected to the first CPU through a first managing bus, connected to the second CPU through a second managing bus, to obtain initial configuration of the interface board from the first CPU via the first managing bus in response to a determination that the first forwarding board is an active forwarding board according to the active/standby state recorded by the state identifying module when the network device starts up, and to obtain initial configuration of the interface board from the second CPU via the second managing bus in response to a determination that the second forwarding board is an active forwarding board according to the active/standby state recorded by the state identifying module when the network device starts up.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.63265
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15771963', '15551363', '14143996', '15361750', '13580631']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5494815423638928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948031753501842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5440137056625219
- Mean Citation Score: 172.10596400000003
- Max Citation Score: 232.76663
- Similarity Product: 167.2895970332998

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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