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 6):
The method according to  claim 5  wherein, on determination at the one of the one or more Flow State Aware network functions receiving the signals, that the flow identity of the new or existing packet flows or the flow identities of the groups of new or existing packet flows or the flow identity of the new or existing packet flow aggregate included in the signals are not included in the store of flow identities of the one of the one or more Flow State Aware network functions receiving the signals, the one of the one or more Flow State Aware network functions receiving the signals modifies the store of flow identities to include the flow identity of the new or existing packet flows or the flow identities of the groups of new or existing packet flows or the flow identity of the new or existing packet flow aggregate included in the signals and stores the classification information included in the signals such that the classification information may be associated with the flow identity of the new or existing packet flows or the flow identities of the groups of new or existing packet flows or the flow identity of the new or existing packet flow aggregate included in the signals, and the classification information is retrievable from a store of classification information by inspection of stored information related to the flow identity of the new or existing packet flows or the flow identities of the groups of new or existing packet flows or the flow identity of the new or existing packet flow aggregate.

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): 0.5558306275075771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6033769930503406
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5605852640618535
- Mean Citation Score: 338.025408
- Max Citation Score: 502.8712
- Similarity Product: 499.3935893381595

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