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 12):
The centralized controller device of  claim 9 , wherein, to negotiate the data session for the given service, the TWAMP control client is configured to:\n send, to the TWAMP server, a service monitoring request message requesting which services are supported at the TWAMP server; receive, from the TWAMP server, a service monitoring response message including a number of the supported services, a service identifier (ID) for each of the supported services, and supported service key performance indicators (KPIs) for each service ID; and send, to the TWAMP server, a service monitoring acknowledgement message selecting one or more service KPIs to be measured for the given service from among the supported service KPIs for each service ID.

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): 0.4135885877138865
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6522673330916158
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4374564622516594
- Mean Citation Score: 545.3939519999999
- Max Citation Score: 649.53174
- Similarity Product: 621.0325419423938

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

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