PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906167
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for redirecting service or device discovery (SD) messages in a software-defined network (SDN) is provided. The SDN comprises a plurality of network nodes, one or more SD serving nodes, and a server. The one or more network nodes of the plurality of network nodes are instructed by the server to redirect received broadcast or multicast SD messages as unicast or multicast SD messages to one or more selected SD serving nodes.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1  applied to a network comprising the SDN and multiple computing devices connected to endpoints of the SDN and executing a service or device discovery protocol, wherein a type of the service or device discovery protocol comprises a one of UPNP, SSDP, zeroconf, SDP, Bonjour or DLNA.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90909
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12096621', '13574903', '14069699', '15245980', '14948848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.491837830190145
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033417348737473
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4929882206585052
- Mean Citation Score: 219.273166
- Max Citation Score: 255.6767
- Similarity Product: 189.72925171359185

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