PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925731
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "328000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a segment routing and tunnel exchange provides packet forwarding efficiencies in a network, including providing an exchange between a segment routing domain and a packet tunnel domain. One application includes the segment routing and tunnel exchange interfacing segment routing packet forwarding (e.g., in a Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and/or 5-G user plane) and packet tunnel forwarding in access networks (e.g., replacing a portion of a tunnel between an access node and a user plane function for accessing a corresponding data network). In one embodiment, a network provides mobility services using a segment routing data plane that spans segment routing and tunnel exchange(s) and segment routing-enabled user plane functions. One embodiment uses the segment routing data plane without any modification to a (radio) access network (R)AN (e.g., Evolved NodeB, Next Generation NodeB) nor to user equipment (e.g., any end user device).

Claim (Index 10):
The network of  claim 7 , wherein the segment routing and tunnel exchange receives a particular tunnel packet from the access node, with the particular tunnel packet including a particular packet encapsulated therein, one or more headers comprising particular tunnel information including the tunnel endpoint identifier and a particular destination address of the tunnel and segment routing exchange; and\n wherein in response to the particular destination address of said received particular tunnel packet, the segment routing and tunnel exchange operating according to an uplink segment routing function including to encapsulate the particular packet in a particular segment routing packet having a particular segment routing policy to reach the particular network node, with the particular segment routing packet being sent from the segment routing and tunnel exchange.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40278
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13540297', '14683228', '15921533', '12599379', '15866176']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5433395262377609
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4757217062522595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5365777442392108
- Mean Citation Score: 194.188956
- Max Citation Score: 197.8588
- Similarity Product: 150.7917965324879

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