PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16457947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["726", "004000"]

Abstract:
A method, apparatus and computer program product for protecting enterprise Information Technology (IT) infrastructures by automatically instantiating individualized network flow controls and/or network access controls specific to an IoT device. In this approach, an IoT device is identified, e.g., via network scanning or other observational sensors, or by receipt of information from a network administrator. In response to receiving information about the new IoT device, a control component obtains applicable network flow control and/or access control rules for the IoT device. These rules are obtained from one or more authoritative (trusted) sources, e.g., querying a website of the IoT vendor, an industry site, or an enterprise site. In this manner, applicable network flow control and/or access control rules are obtained. The control component then translates those rules into configuration parameters that are consumable by the particular network flow control device that is (or will be) associated with the IoT device.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of protecting an enterprise network that includes a set of one or more network control devices, comprising:\n detecting a new Internet of Things (IoT) device; responsive to detecting the new IoT device, querying an authoritative source to obtain a set of control rules for the new IoT device; responsive to receipt of the set of control rules, generating a device configuration comprising a set of one or more configuration parameters for the new IoT device, the set of configuration parameters being individualized for the new IoT device and based at least in part on the set of control rules; and instantiating the configuration into at least one of the one or more network control devices to control network behavior of the new IoT device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96591
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15871351', '14636926', '15415629', '14314498', '15604206']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2660338805003341
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4740449897064437
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2868349914209451
- Mean Citation Score: 145.31711
- Max Citation Score: 178.72092
- Similarity Product: 135.48290249074458

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

Dataset: test