PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000708
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
Introduced here is a technique for using a network switch device, which may include commodity switching fabric, to route packets through an inline tool, without introducing any additional information to the packets. The introduced technique modifies standard capability of packet forwarding and learning port-to-MAC address associations to route data packets through the inline tool. The technique may include applying two override settings to the network device. A first override setting involves a forwarding rule that is based on the arrival port and the content of the packet. A second override setting involves disabling the MAC address learning mechanism for the packet received from the inline tool via the second tool port of the network device.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n receiving a first packet at a first network port of a network device from a first network node; determining, without modifying the first packet or appending information to the first packet, that the first packet is to be routed to a second network port of the network device for forwarding on the network; routing the first packet, without modifying the first packet or appending information to the first packet, from the first network port to a first tool port of the network device for transmission to an inline tool, and subsequently from a second tool port of the network device to the second network port of the network device for transmission to a second network node; receiving a second packet at a third network port of the network device from a third network node; determining, without modifying the second packet or appending information to the second packet, that the second packet is to be routed to a fourth network port of the network device for forwarding on the network; and routing the second packet, without modifying the second packet or appending information to the second packet, from the third network port to the first tool port of the network device for transmission to the inline tool, and subsequently from the second tool port of the network device to the fourth network port of the network device for transmission to a fourth network node.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83582
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14880036', '14945347', '14807524', '12492548', '14807514']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5271456153763661
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5116448277831502
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5255955366170445
- Mean Citation Score: 198.964612
- Max Citation Score: 289.33115
- Similarity Product: 237.7746480880677

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