PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762265
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "331000"]

Abstract:
The application relates to Network Function Virtualisation as standardised by ETSI GS NFV002 VI.2.1. The standard provides for dynamic instantiation and management of VNF instances. When using base stations as platforms on which VNFs can be instantiated, it has to be decided how this is done in an efficient way. The application proposes that in case a UE moves from an area covered by a source base station ( 210 ) to an area covered by a target base station ( 220 ), at least one VNF ( 250 ) is deployed on the target base station. This VNF may be a clone of a VNF ( 240 ) hosted by the source bases station.

Claim (Index 53):
A method, in a source radio base station, for provisioning of services to a roaming User Equipment (UE), the services being offered by at least one Virtual Network Function (VNF) hosted on the source radio base station, and being delivered to the roaming UE via a radio interface of the source radio base station, wherein the roaming UE is roaming from a radio coverage area of the source radio base station into a radio coverage area of a target radio base station, the method comprising:\n determining a trigger condition for handing-over the delivery of the services from the radio interface of the source radio base station to a radio interface of a target radio base station; and causing, if the trigger condition is met, a VNF manager to deploy at least one VNF on the target radio base station, the at least one VNF on the target radio base station being adapted for offering at least a subset of the provisioned services to the roaming UE.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60526
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15081378', '15683360', '15853958', '15001745', '14866565']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5428499477376111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033036944025597
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.538895322404106
- Mean Citation Score: 225.74866000000003
- Max Citation Score: 250.22472
- Similarity Product: 162.22820093134402

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

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