PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868871
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure provides an approach for reducing multicast traffic within a network by optimizing placement of virtual machines within subnets and within hosts, and by optimizing mapping of overlay multicast groups to underlay multicast groups. In one embodiment, substantially all VMs of a multicast group are migrated to the same subnet of the network. Thereafter or independently, VMs in the same subnet are migrated to the same host, ideally to the subnet proxy endpoint of that subnet. In the same or in another embodiment, if multiple overlay groups map to the same underlay group, one or more of the overlay groups may be remapped to a separate underlay group to improve network performance.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n for a first underlay multicast group comprising at least one host machine of the plurality of host machines, determining if the first underlay multicast group is associated with a plurality of overlay multicast groups each associated with the at least one VM of the plurality of VMs; when it is determined that the first underlay multicast group is associated with the plurality of overlay multicast groups, changing an association of the first overlay multicast group of the plurality of multicast groups from the first the first underlay multicast group to a second underlay multicast group.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14231245', '15726335', '14133528', '15686093', '14320453']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5913780147811462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5210839985198922
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5843486131550207
- Mean Citation Score: 311.512936
- Max Citation Score: 333.63846
- Similarity Product: 233.75212580384013

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

Dataset: test