PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259435
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes generating a trace request at an initiator node configured for segment routing, the trace request comprising an FEC (Forwarding Equivalence Class) query corresponding to a label in an FEC stack with an unknown FEC, transmitting the trace request on a path with the unknown FEC, and receiving a response to the trace request, the response comprising FEC information including an identifier associated with a label and a forwarding path and representing a class or category of packets. An apparatus is also disclosed herein.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 10  wherein said trace request comprises a Target FEC Stack Sub-TLV containing said FEC query and wherein the Target FEC Stack Sub-TLV comprises said FEC query for each label in a label stack with unknown FEC details.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68966
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15253487', '11848780', '12886439', '13933054', '10365598']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.563262449296524
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5703078427001692
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5639669886368885
- Mean Citation Score: 269.123754
- Max Citation Score: 457.44025
- Similarity Product: 403.5554257053137

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

Dataset: test