PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107944
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
A process capable of facilitating network communication using forwarders or vforwarders interconnected via an overlay network is disclosed. The process, in one aspect, is able to receive a packet stream or network traffic from a customer premise equipment (“CPE”) using a point-to-point (“PTP”) connection via the overlay network. After identifying a service component able to provide a network function (“NF”) in accordance with the packet stream, at least a portion of the packet stream is forwarded to the service component via a second PTP connection through the overlay network according to a set of predefined requirements. Upon receipt of a processed packet stream in response to the packet stream from the service component, the processed packet stream is forwarded to another forwarder via a hop-to-hop (“HTH”) link through the overlay network in accordance with the processed packet stream.

Claim (Index 7):
An apparatus configured to facilitate network communication, comprising:\n a network infrastructure layer containing a plurality of service components able to provide various network functions (\u201cNFs\u201d) for processing or routing packet streams; an overlay network, coupled to the network infrastructure layer, containing a plurality of virtual forwarders (\u201cVFds\u201d) and a plurality of hop-to-hop (\u201cHTH\u201d) links, wherein the VFds are configured to forward the packet streams from one VFd to another VFd linked by at least one of the plurality of HTH links.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28169
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15249127', '15203051', '15867416', '13332499', '14945862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4640648880005164
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5466748766770401
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4723258868681688
- Mean Citation Score: 206.219042
- Max Citation Score: 389.43594
- Similarity Product: 349.1594462911892

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