PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15752698
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["709", "226000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus may include transmitting a scaling request. The scaling request comprises a request for virtualized network function expansion or virtualized network function contraction. The scaling request is transmitted to a second network node. A first domain is directed to application level details. A second domain is directed to virtualization level details. The scaling request comprises: (1) a relative target capacity that is generic to both the first domain and the second domain, (2) an absolute target capacity that is specific to the first domain, or (3) a relative target capacity that is specific to virtualized network function level targets. The method may also include receiving a notification that a virtualization network function has been updated based on the transmitted scaling request.

Claim (Index 16):
An apparatus, comprising:\n at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to receive a scaling request, wherein the scaling request comprises a request for virtualized network function expansion or virtualized network function contraction, the scaling request is received from a network node, a first domain is directed to application level details, a second domain is directed to virtualization level details, and the scaling request comprises: (1) a relative target capacity that is generic to both the first domain and the second domain, (2) an absolute target capacity that is specific to the first domain, or (3) a relative target capacity that is specific to virtualized network function level targets; calculate a target amount of virtual resources to allocate; and perform allocation of the target amount of virtual resources.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41379
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15638246', '15144629', '15274220', '15817264', '15247652']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3101257803090854
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5166423394707298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3307774362252499
- Mean Citation Score: 308.393036
- Max Citation Score: 336.1950700000001
- Similarity Product: 251.7885700615764

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