PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948992
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a method for a particular forwarding element (FE) in a network of FEs. The method receives a packet at the particular FE. The packet includes a packet header that includes, for each of multiple FEs along a path from a source of the packet to a destination of the packet, (i) an identifier for the FE and (ii) a set of one or more actions for the FE to perform on the packet. The method parses the packet header to identify the set of actions for the particular FE. The method performs the identified set of actions.

Claim (Index 19):
The HFE of  claim 18 , wherein a particular stage of the action execution engine stores state regarding the HFE, wherein the action executed by the particular stage comprises reading the stored state and adding the state to the packet header vector for inclusion in a modified packet output by the HFE.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13968390', '15421662', '14320448', '15261941', '14325228']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6226512482432051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5072129392022849
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6111074173391131
- Mean Citation Score: 266.25896
- Max Citation Score: 268.35965
- Similarity Product: 187.00656654809708

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