PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16270593
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["370", "390000"]

Abstract:
A novel method of conducting multicast traffic in a network is provided. The network includes multiple endpoints that receive messages from the network and generate messages for the network. The endpoints are located in different segments of the network, each segment including one or more of the endpoints. For a source endpoint to replicate a particular message (e.g., a data packet) for all endpoints belonging to a particular replication group (i.e., multicast group) within the network, the source endpoint replicates the particular message to each endpoint within the source endpoint's own segment and to a proxy endpoint in each of the other segments. Each proxy endpoint in turn replicates the particular message to all endpoints belonging to the particular replication group within the proxy endpoint's own segment.

Claim (Index 31):
A method for operating logical networks over a physical network segmented into a plurality of network segments, the method comprising:\n receiving, at a particular tunnel endpoint of a network segment of the physical network, membership information regarding a set of multicast groups to which the particular tunnel endpoint belongs, the membership information comprising an identification of a plurality of tunnel endpoints in a plurality of physical network segments that are members of at least one multicast group in the set of multicast groups; based on the membership information, selecting a replication proxy for a particular multicast group in the set of multicast groups in each of the other network segments of the physical network that include at least one member of the particular multicast group, the replication proxy for replicating broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) packets, wherein at least two tunnel endpoints that (1) are in a same network segment and (2) belong to the particular multicast group select different proxies for the particular multicast group in at least one of the other network segments.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32787
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15885749', '14020369', '14231245', '15726335', '14133528']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6328705555827704
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5648322259083529
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6260667226153286
- Mean Citation Score: 405.757576
- Max Citation Score: 476.8389
- Similarity Product: 374.0944998517513

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

Dataset: test