PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907499
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["709", "223000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are configured to receive and process an attach request from a communication element of a communication network. A response to the attached request is prepared, and transmission of the response is caused. The preparing of the response includes first identification data identifying the virtualized network function and second identification data identifying an intermediate network element or network function being related to the virtualized network function.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the apparatus is implemented by a virtualized network function being related to a communication network control function of the communication network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78049
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15112039', '15907525', '15907455', '15559903', '14431979']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2847238601094997
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5319654000060856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3094480140991583
- Mean Citation Score: 293.442204
- Max Citation Score: 354.16443
- Similarity Product: 263.498257729134

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

Dataset: test