PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16125295
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["455", "452100"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for management of network slices in a communication network such as a 5 th  generation wireless communication network are provided. Management planes may be provided which are separate from the plurality of network slices. A connection manager residing in a management plane receives an indication that a mobile device is to be associated with the communication network. The connection manager may reside at an access node or in the core network. A network slice is determined, and the connection manager transmits instructions, to one or more network nodes, to associate the mobile device with the network slice. The instructions may be provided to a local connection manager. The slice may be requested explicitly by the mobile device, or determined based on device and/or network requirements.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising selecting, by the connection manager, a local connection manager corresponding to the network slice.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04412
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15169383', '15242014', '15233285', '15168411', '15239224']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6723239972113478
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5526433439032017
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6603559318805332
- Mean Citation Score: 294.738642
- Max Citation Score: 399.4268
- Similarity Product: 396.6344195511103

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