PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891875
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["370", "218000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for operating a virtual node in a LAG that includes a first virtual node and a second virtual node are disclosed. The first virtual node includes at least a first fellow node and a second fellow node. In one exemplary method, the first fellow node receives, from the second virtual node, first control information comprising a system ID and first configuration information associated with the LAG. The first control information is compared with reference configuration information representing previously established expected configuration information associated with the LAG. Based on that comparison, and at least one additional criterion, a split brain condition may be determined to exist in the LAG. In a complementary fashion, a fellow node of the second virtual node may be configured to alter its transmitted configuration information depending on whether it is able to communicate with its fellow node in the second virtual node.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of operating a virtual node in a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) comprising a first portal at one end of a LAG link and a second portal at the other end of the LAG link, wherein the first portal comprises first and second portal systems, the method comprising:\n determining, by the first portal system, whether first control information received from the second portal system matches reference configuration associated with the LAG; determining whether a split brain condition exists responsive to determining that the first control information does not match reference configuration, wherein a split brain condition exists if:\n the first portal system is not communicatively connected to the second portal system; or \n the second portal system is communicatively connected to the second portal, and the first configuration information does not match second configuration information provided to the second portal system by the second portal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15463292', '14400619', '14257360', '15339162', '14838353']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5144724630455533
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6077526351039854
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5238004802513965
- Mean Citation Score: 376.683844
- Max Citation Score: 537.4708
- Similarity Product: 491.0142123469353

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

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