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 5):
The method according to  claim 2 , wherein the receiving of the signals at one of the one or more Flow State Aware network function and the inclusion of the identity of the new packet flow or the identities of the group of new packet flows or the identity of the new packet flow aggregate in the classification information included in the signals is used to compare with a store of flow identities of flows at the one of the one or more Flow State Aware network function receiving the signals to determine either:\n i) new flow identities not included in the store of flow identities at the one of the one or more Flow State Aware network function receiving the signals; or ii) existing flow identities already included in the store of flow identities at the one of the one or more Flow State Aware network function receiving the signals, where a further comparison of the classification information included in the signal with classification information already stored on the one of the one or more Flow State Aware network function receiving the signals indicates that the QoS treatment of the existing packet flow or the group of existing packet flows or the existing packet flow aggregate should be modified.

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): 0.5568785911963253
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6009617814968855
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5612869102263814
- Mean Citation Score: 338.025408
- Max Citation Score: 502.8712
- Similarity Product: 486.9359902338028

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