PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005444
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Packet network node and method of operating packet network node. Conventional packet network nodes react to congestion in packet network by dropping packets in a manner which is perceived by users to be indiscriminate. In the described system, indiscriminate packet discards are prevented by causing packets to be discarded on lower priority flows and flow aggregates. Further action is taken to reduce the likelihood of packet discards through: (1) classification of flows that are not observable at the point in the network where flow-based packet discards are deployed, but are consuming bandwidth and signaling classification information to flow-based packet discard function or a flow-based monitoring function or network management function; (2) classification of flows making use of extended monitoring functions that are not co-located with a flow-based packet discard function, where extended monitoring functions may perform monitoring of a flow or a group of flows over a period of time.

Claim (Index 9):
The method according to  claim 2 , wherein a first Flow State Aware network function discovers neighboring Flow State Aware network functions and network addresses of the neighboring Flow State Aware network functions through additional discovery signals where the additional discovery signals include information on virtual local area network (VLAN) identities or end-user or service provider identities, enabling the first Flow State Aware network function to store policy information relating to other Flow State Aware network functions that may be located at different points in the packet subnet that should be informed of the flow commencement and cessation detections and determinations of the classification information, or the monitoring information by the first Flow State Aware network function.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91765
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14146992', '12844782', '12828150', '15688712', '14171605']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.559379973345726
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5951722687973932
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5629592028908927
- Mean Citation Score: 338.025408
- Max Citation Score: 502.8712
- Similarity Product: 457.1757322056295

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

Dataset: test