PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744420
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for packet handling and steering in a service function chaining network such that the full metadata associated with a packet need not be appended to the packet itself.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for processing inbound service function chaining (SFC) network traffic, comprising:\n receiving a packet at a first network node over an overlay network, the packet including a network service context indicator; retrieving a set of SFC parameters in accordance with the network service context indicator; generating a network service header based at least in part on the set of SFC parameters; modifying the packet to include the generated network service header; and forwarding the modified packet to a second network node in accordance with the generated network service header.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.17241
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14937613', '15428748', '15667327', '14631595', '14664629']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5790602140432652
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4897413635435692
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5701283289932956
- Mean Citation Score: 236.234062
- Max Citation Score: 240.86966
- Similarity Product: 182.85590769249083

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