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 8):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein associating the mobile device with the network slice includes one or more of: authenticating the mobile device; authorizing the UE to associate the network slice to the mobile device; admitting the mobile device to the network slice; establishing signaling and data bearers for the mobile device; establishing network forwarding rules supporting the mobile device; performing a path computation operation using a flow manager entity in the communication network; performing a path configuration operation by the flow manager entity; and transmitting an attach response to the mobile device indicative that association of the mobile device with the network slice has been performed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04412
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15169383', '15242014', '15233285', '15168411', '15239224']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6994775310900772
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5526416639601348
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.684793944377083
- Mean Citation Score: 294.738642
- Max Citation Score: 399.4268
- Similarity Product: 353.66593896160134

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