PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16105880
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A Software Defined Network (SDN) includes a plurality of forwarding devices and a routing control device located separate from the forwarding devices. The routing control device, establishes paths to and from the network forwarding devices. Using such paths, forwarding devices send the routing control device information reflecting the topology if the network. Embodiments disclosed herein enable automatic discovery of the topology of the network and the paths to and from the routing control device.

Claim (Index 14):
The program storage device as recited in  claim 12 , wherein the determining (e) comprises:\n determining, based on the destination, a server to route the data stream through, wherein the determining (e) comprises determining the path to route through the server.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15177170', '14667407', '14188027', '15605468', '15610446']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.525407518198397
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5116172902676179
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5240284954053192
- Mean Citation Score: 223.435402
- Max Citation Score: 264.82123
- Similarity Product: 185.77463378280044

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