PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167328
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["709", "221000"]

Abstract:
A computer in a content delivery network (CDN) may take on one or more roles within the CDN. A particular computer takes on a first at least one role within the CDN; and then, in response to a change in configuration information, takes on a second at least one role within the CDN, the second at least one role being distinct from the first at least one role.

Claim (Index 14):
A method, operable within a content delivery network (CDN), said CDN comprising at least one computer, wherein a computer takes on one or more roles within the CDN, the method comprising, by a particular computer:\n (A)(1) obtaining first configuration information; and then (A)(2) based on said first configuration information, taking on a first at least one role within the CDN; and then, (B)(1) obtaining second configuration information; and then (B)(2) based on said second configuration information, in addition to said first at least one role within the CDN, taking on a second at least one role within the CDN, said first configuration information being distinct from said second configuration information, wherein the second configuration information reflects a change in a role of said particular computer, and wherein the one or more roles of the particular computer are changed by said second configuration information based on feedback from the CDN to meet capacity needs in the CDN, wherein the feedback is based on state information from content delivery (CD) services running on at least two devices in said CDN, and wherein the change in configuration information for the particular computer was determined by one or more control services based on said state information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94872
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14583718', '14307374', '14303314', '13837821', '13715304']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2779426634570202
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5380556444299197
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3039539615543101
- Mean Citation Score: 351.001368
- Max Citation Score: 402.10065
- Similarity Product: 321.67424542201456

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