PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971443
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
A method for implementing load balancing, an apparatus, and a network system, where a controller obtains a port attribute of each port of a first switch in a mesh network, determines, according to the port attribute of each port of the first switch, a virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to each port of the first switch, where all user-side ports of the first switch correspond to a first virtual routing and forwarding instance, generates a forwarding table of the first switch according to a topology of the mesh network and the virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to each port of the first switch, where a first forwarding entry of the forwarding table includes the first virtual routing and forwarding instance, a destination network segment and at least two forwarding paths corresponding to the destination network segment, and sends the forwarding table to the first switch.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for implementing load balancing, applied to a system comprising a controller and a mesh network, the mesh network comprising a plurality of switches, and the method comprising:\n receiving, by a first switch, a forwarding table from the controller, the first switch being any one of the switches and comprising a plurality of ports, the ports comprising a network-side port and a user-side port corresponding to different virtual routing and forwarding instances, a first forwarding entry of the forwarding table comprising a first virtual routing and forwarding instance, a first destination network segment corresponding to the first virtual routing and forwarding instance and at least two forwarding paths corresponding to the first destination network segment, and the first virtual routing and forwarding instance comprising a virtual routing and forwarding instance corresponding to all user-side ports of the first switch; receiving, by the first switch, a packet; and selecting, by the first switch according to a load balancing algorithm and the first forwarding entry, a target forwarding path for the packet from the at least two forwarding paths corresponding to the first destination network segment when a port receiving the packet corresponding to the first destination network segment comprises the user-side port; and forwarding, by the first switch, the packet using the target forwarding path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.18
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13649026', '15639791', '14337161', '15610233', '15610313']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5514549255804325
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4891144827069524
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5452208812930845
- Mean Citation Score: 230.193308
- Max Citation Score: 236.80928
- Similarity Product: 178.02431033935548

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

Dataset: test