PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006897
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a Segment Routing network node provides efficiencies in processing and communicating Internet Protocol packets in a network. An Internet Protocol (IP) packet, possibly a Segment Routing packet, is received by a node in a network, which updates the packet according to a corresponding Segment Routing Policy, that includes an ordered list of Segment Identifiers comprising, in first-to-last order, a first Segment Identifier followed by one or more subsequent Segment Identifiers. The updating of the packet includes setting the Destination Address to the first Segment Identifier, and adding said one or more subsequent Segment Identifiers, but not the first Segment Identifier, in a first Segment Routing Header. The updated packet is sent into the network without the first Segment Identifier being added to a Segment Routing Header in response to the Segment Routing Policy.

Claim (Index 20):
An apparatus, comprising:\n one or more hardware interfaces communicatively coupled to a network; and one or more network processors with memory associated therewith; wherein the apparatus, communicatively coupled to a network, performs packet processing operations including Segment Routing-capable (SR-capable) packet processing operations, with said packet processing operations including: receiving a particular Internet Protocol (IP) packet from the network; updating the particular IP packet to include a particular Segment Routing Policy, with the Segment Routing Policy including an ordered list of Segment Identifiers that will be traversed by the particular IP packet, with the ordered list comprising in first-to-last order a first Segment Identifier followed by one or more subsequent Segment Identifiers, with said updating including adding said one or more subsequent Segment Identifiers to a particular Segment Routing Header that is an IP Extension header of the particular IP packet, and with said updating including setting the Destination Address of the outer IP header of the particular IP packet to the first Segment Identifier; wherein said updating the particular IP packet to include the particular Segment Routing Policy does not include adding the first Segment Identifier to any Segment Routing header; and sending said updated particular IP packet from the apparatus into the network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23529
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15925731', '15866176', '15922894', '15841276', '15783753']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5730289263207267
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4991202345267967
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5656380571413336
- Mean Citation Score: 282.232536
- Max Citation Score: 293.9449
- Similarity Product: 255.73819657011035

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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