PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866176
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, segment routing (SR) network processing of packets is performed on packets having a segment identifier structure providing processing and/or memory efficiencies. Responsive to an identified particular segment routing policy, the particular router retrieves from memory a dynamic segment routing identifier portion of the particular SR policy that includes a SR node value and a SR function value. The SR function value identifies segment routing processing to be performed by a router in the network identified based on the SR node value. A segment routing discriminator is independently identified, possibly being a fixed value for all segment identifiers in the network. Before sending into the network, a complete segment identifier is added to the particular packet by combining the segment routing discriminator with the dynamic segment routing identifier portion. The particular packet including the complete segment identifier is sent into the network.

Claim (Index 19):
An apparatus, comprising:\n one or more hardware interfaces sending and receiving packets; and one or more network processors with memory associated therewith; wherein the apparatus, communicatively coupled in a network, performs packet processing operations including segment routing-capable (SR-capable) packet processing operations, with said packet processing operations including: receiving a particular packet by a particular router in a network; responsive to the particular router data plane ascertaining a particular segment routing (SR) policy based on the particular packet said received, the particular router retrieving from memory a dynamic segment routing identifier portion of the particular SR policy, with the dynamic segment routing identifier portion including a SR node value and a SR function value, with the SR function value identifying segment routing processing to be performed by a router in the network identified based on the SR node value; identifying a segment routing discriminator independently from said retrieving the dynamic segment routing identifier portion; adding a complete segment identifier to the particular packet, which includes combining the segment routing discriminator with the dynamic segment routing identifier portion said retrieved from said memory, with the segment routing discriminator identifying that the particular packet is a segment routing packet; and sending, from the particular router into the network, the particular packet with the complete segment identifier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29412
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15841276', '15783753', '15056502', '14211710', '15677210']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5530378106770668
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4781552014095676
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5455495497503169
- Mean Citation Score: 201.626006
- Max Citation Score: 239.86949
- Similarity Product: 208.29909972647727

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

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