PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992015
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["725", "116000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods presented herein provide for a software defined network (SDN) controller in a cable television system that virtualizes network elements in the cable television system to provide content delivery and data services through the virtualized network elements. In one embodiment, the SDN controller is operable in a cloud computing environment to balance data traffic through the virtualized network elements. For example, the SDN controller may abstract Layer 2 Control Protocol (L2CP) frame processing of the network elements into the cloud computing environment to relieve the network elements from the burdens of Ethernet frame processing. In this regard, the SDN controller comprises a L2CP decision module that determines how L2CP should be processed for the network elements in the cable television system.

Claim (Index 1):
A cable television system, comprising:\n a cable modem termination system (CMTS) operable to deliver content and data services to a plurality of subscribers of the cable television system; a plurality of network elements operable to deliver the content to the CMTS; and a software defined network (SDN) controller operable within a cloud computing environment that is communicatively coupled to the CMTS, wherein the SDN controller is operable to virtualize the network elements in the cloud computing environment to balance data traffic through the virtualized network elements, and wherein the SDN controller comprises a Layer 2 Control Protocol (L2CP) module operable to abstract L2CP frame processing of the network elements into the cloud computing environment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94203
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12537624', '13689998', '14970004', '12537603', '13247880']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4139585547530274
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4188976623088292
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4144524655086076
- Mean Citation Score: 111.4792782
- Max Citation Score: 115.46649
- Similarity Product: 108.18936614349244

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