PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883821
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
A system for steering network traffic to service functions in a service function chain, the system including: a processor; a data storage module; an input interface; an output interface; a classifier configured to determine a path for a data packet in the service function chain; and a forwarder configured to determine the next location to which the data packet will be sent based on the path. A method for steering network traffic to service functions in a service function chain, the method including: classifying a data packet to determine a path for a data packet in the service function chain; and forwarding the data packet to a next location to which the data packet will be sent based on the path.

Claim (Index 16):
A system for steering network traffic to service functions in a service function chain, the system comprising:\n a processor configured to execute stored machine readable instruction; a data storage module configured to store data related to a data packet; an input interface configured to receive a data packet from a network; a classifier configured to receive the packet from the input interface and determine a path comprising at least one function for the data packet, wherein the function is performed by at least one of a plurality of service functions within the service function chain; a forwarder configured to determine the next function to which the data packet will be sent based on the path; a load balance configured to determine which service function will perform the next function to the data packet based at least in part on the load of each of the plurality of service functions within the service function chain; a health module configured to determine an operational status of each of the plurality of service functions within the service function chain; and an output interface configured to direct the data packet to a service function based on the load and the operational status of each of the plurality of service functions within the service function chain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95556
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15483534', '15226758', '15056516', '15827807', '14161261']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5486342560090528
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4715153711328035
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5409223675214279
- Mean Citation Score: 190.735108
- Max Citation Score: 194.03911
- Similarity Product: 151.66040136394082

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