PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871581
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "232000"]

Abstract:
A method for performing in-band operations, administration, and management (OAM) using fixed bytes. According to one aspect, data packets are selected from a packet flow according to a sampling rate. A network device's OAM information is inserted into a fixed length field of each selected packet as a selected packet is processed by the network device.

Claim (Index 20):
The network device of  claim 13 , wherein the processing unit is further configured to execute the instructions to:\n determine whether the selected packet includes the OAM information from an upstream network device in the fixed length field; responsive to a determination that the selected packet includes the OAM information from the upstream network device in the fixed length field, determine whether there are sufficient bytes available in the fixed length field of the selected packet for the OAM information of the network device; and insert the OAM information of the network device into the fixed length field of the selected packet only in response to a determination that there are sufficient bytes available in the fixed length field of the selected packet for the OAM information of the network device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38298
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12724102', '12119939', '12982734', '14879185', '15392355']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5123307549277377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4728095014508626
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5083786295800502
- Mean Citation Score: 165.586118
- Max Citation Score: 170.89851000000004
- Similarity Product: 135.07026215185766

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