PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107944
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
A process capable of facilitating network communication using forwarders or vforwarders interconnected via an overlay network is disclosed. The process, in one aspect, is able to receive a packet stream or network traffic from a customer premise equipment (“CPE”) using a point-to-point (“PTP”) connection via the overlay network. After identifying a service component able to provide a network function (“NF”) in accordance with the packet stream, at least a portion of the packet stream is forwarded to the service component via a second PTP connection through the overlay network according to a set of predefined requirements. Upon receipt of a processed packet stream in response to the packet stream from the service component, the processed packet stream is forwarded to another forwarder via a hop-to-hop (“HTH”) link through the overlay network in accordance with the processed packet stream.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for facilitating network communication, comprising:\n receiving a first packet flow from a customer premises equipment (\u201cCPE\u201d) to a first virtual forwarder (\u201cVFd\u201d) via a first point-to-point (\u201cPTP\u201d) north-south (\u201cNS\u201d) link; identifying a next service component in accordance with the first packet flow; determining a second VFd associated with the next service component in accordance with content stored in a first lookup table in the first VFd, wherein the first lookup table includes information relating to various VFds associated with various service components; and forwarding at least a portion of the first packet flow from the first VFd to the second VFd via a hop-to-hop (\u201cHTH\u201d) east-west (\u201cEW\u201d) link.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28169
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15249127', '15203051', '15867416', '13332499', '14945862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4656451015790263
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5451698602670093
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4735975774478246
- Mean Citation Score: 206.219042
- Max Citation Score: 389.43594
- Similarity Product: 305.7421806728089

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