PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15752698
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["709", "226000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus may include transmitting a scaling request. The scaling request comprises a request for virtualized network function expansion or virtualized network function contraction. The scaling request is transmitted to a second network node. A first domain is directed to application level details. A second domain is directed to virtualization level details. The scaling request comprises: (1) a relative target capacity that is generic to both the first domain and the second domain, (2) an absolute target capacity that is specific to the first domain, or (3) a relative target capacity that is specific to virtualized network function level targets. The method may also include receiving a notification that a virtualization network function has been updated based on the transmitted scaling request.

Claim (Index 12):
A method, comprising:\n receiving, by a second network node, a scaling request, wherein the scaling request comprises a request for virtualized network function expansion or virtualized network function contraction, the scaling request is received from a first network node, a first domain is directed to application level details, a second domain is directed to virtualization level details, and the scaling request comprises: (1) a relative target capacity that is generic to both the first domain and the second domain, (2) an absolute target capacity that is specific to the first domain, or (3) a relative target capacity that is specific to virtualized network function level targets; calculating a target amount of virtual resources to allocate; and performing allocation of the target amount of virtual resources.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41379
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15638246', '15144629', '15274220', '15817264', '15247652']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3101389418634852
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5171635799155724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3308414056686939
- Mean Citation Score: 308.393036
- Max Citation Score: 336.1950700000001
- Similarity Product: 245.4658115266193

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test