PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959261
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide novel methods for controllers to communicate with managed hardware forwarding elements (MHFEs) in a transactional manner. The transactional communication methods of some embodiments ensure that an MHFE receives the entirety of a control plane update that a controller supplies to it, before the MHFE starts to modify its data plane forwarding data and operations. The transactional communication methods of some embodiments provide one or more transactional boundary controls to the controllers to define complete control plane data set updates. In some embodiments, the transactional controls ensure that an MHFE receives all of a control plane update before it starts to modify its data plane forwarding data. Controllers use one transactional control in some embodiments when they define logical forwarding elements (e.g., logical switches or routers) on the MHFEs.

Claim (Index 26):
A method for configuring a managed hardware forwarding element (MHFE) to implement a logical forwarding element along with a plurality of other managed forwarding elements operating outside of the MHFE, and to communicatively couple the LFE with a private network, the method comprising:\n providing a plurality of data tuples for defining LFE on the MHFE, without providing a data tuple for binding the LFE to a port of the MHFE; and after providing the plurality of data tuples for defining the LFE, providing the data tuple that binds the LFE to a port of the MHFE.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13433
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14970463', '14970474', '14970469', '15046857', '15253570']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6872760265363592
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6866614601398184
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6872145698967052
- Mean Citation Score: 589.636392
- Max Citation Score: 759.0111
- Similarity Product: 696.8087764055908

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