PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16257284
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["709", "224000"]

Abstract:
At an SDN controller executing using a processor and a memory, a tracing packet is configured with a default value in a tag field. The tracing packet is inserted from the SDN controller into the SDN at a switch in the SDN. A returned packet and a port identifier is received at the controller, from the switch, the returned packet including a modified content in a location of the tracing packet that is different from the tag field. The port identifier corresponds to a port of the switch on which the switch received the returned packet from an middlebox. A function of the middlebox is identified by analyzing a modification applied to the modified content by the middlebox. The function of the middlebox and a location of the middlebox in the SDN are saved. The location includes the port identifier and an identifier of the switch.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising:\n configuring a controller rule in the set of controller rules to determine the new value according to a condition, wherein the condition evaluates a switch identifier of the switch and the port identifier of a port on the switch on which the switch received the returned packet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83636
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15171030', '14697986', '14196005', '15398709', '15581366']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2516469418943791
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5924936352301113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2857316112279524
- Mean Citation Score: 298.92333999999994
- Max Citation Score: 489.1509400000001
- Similarity Product: 487.1662845221937

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