PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891798
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "238000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are described for virtualizing routing of network traffic by offloading routing decisions to a controller in communication with a plurality of network devices. For load balancing applications, the controller may make up-front decisions as to both destination and route, rather than wait until traffic has been routed to a load balancing point before determining the destination.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n receiving, by a computing device, a destination address associated with a plurality of network devices; generating a flow identifier; determining a forward route comprising a network device of the plurality of network devices; determining a return route associated with the flow identifier; and sending, to one or more network devices, the flow identifier and an instruction to route data packets based on the forward route or the return route.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.36957
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14306783', '15360618', '14406107', '14320079', '15711336']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5240041827354711
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4648004908130201
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5180838135432261
- Mean Citation Score: 163.185448
- Max Citation Score: 193.30482
- Similarity Product: 161.6972906556022

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