PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030226
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["709", "203000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are described for extending a two-way active measurement protocol (TWAMP) to enable measurement of service key performance indicators (KPIs) in a software defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) architecture. The TWAMP extensions enable control messaging to be handled by a TWAMP control client executed on a centralized controller, and data messaging to be handled by a TWAMP session initiator executed on a separate network device. Techniques are also described for extending TWAMP to enable measurement of any of a plurality of service KPIs for a given service supported at a TWAMP server. The service KPIs may include one or more of keepalive measurements, round trip time measurements, path delay measurements, service latency measurements, or service load measurements. The TWAMP extensions for the service KPIs may be used in both conventional network architectures and in SDN and NFV architectures.

Claim (Index 22):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein the TWAMP session initiator is running on one of a physical chassis of the first network device or a virtual machine of the first network device, and wherein the first network device and the second network device are either a same device or different devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09211
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14755961', '16002510', '14755986', '15376617', '15380598']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4112124486568748
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6582519412580695
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4359163979169942
- Mean Citation Score: 545.3939519999999
- Max Citation Score: 649.53174
- Similarity Product: 640.978953061223

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

Dataset: test