PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899242
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus of a network element that processes network data in an equal cost multi-path (ECMP) group is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element receives the network data, where the network data is part of network data flow. In addition, the network element detects that the network data flow is a new network data flow and selects a transmitting nexthop from a plurality of nexthops of the ECMP group. The network element further maps the new network flow to a slot of a table in an ECMP group and transmits the network data using the transmitting nexthop.

Claim (Index 9):
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method to manage an equal cost multi-path (ECMP) group in a network element, the method comprising:\n detecting an addition to a membership of an ECMP group, wherein the addition is a new nexthop for the ECMP group; and allocating a slot in an ECMP group table for the new nexthop, wherein a packet flow using this nexthop is mapped to the slot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2449
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15409398', '15810065', '15670055', '10975201', '12772528']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4897902022873833
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.488913248385353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4897025068971803
- Mean Citation Score: 189.250952
- Max Citation Score: 207.21402
- Similarity Product: 153.5428832772946

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

Dataset: test