PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15888903
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["725", "116000"]

Abstract:
An Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Quality of Experience (QoE) Management Unit manages bandwidth usage and QoE at a customer premises where multiple client devices independently download content from multiple providers. An overall virtual pipe to the premises includes a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) inner pipe, a non-HTTP inner pipe, an ABR inner pipe, and a non-ABR inner pipe. The Unit determines a data cap for a current billing cycle; and determines, based on policy management settings and the data cap for the current billing cycle, at least one of: a bandwidth cap for the overall virtual pipe, a bandwidth cap for the HTTP inner pipe, a bandwidth cap for the non-HTTP inner pipe, a bandwidth cap for the ABR inner pipe, and a bandwidth cap for the non-ABR inner pipe. Responsive to the determination of the bandwidth caps, the Unit throttles traffic within at least one of the inner pipes.

Claim (Index 8):
The method according to  claim 7 , wherein utilizing PPT WFQ includes:\n detecting that the second client device has entered the idle phase of its duty cycle; and generating phantom packets that are not associated with any actual payload traffic, wherein the phantom packets simulate a continuous network demand by the second client device while the second client device is in the idle phase of its duty cycle, thereby preventing the first client device from increasing its bit rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47826
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15437077', '14618295', '14618391', '15437118', '15687170']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5264732724630897
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6246343359784879
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5362893788146296
- Mean Citation Score: 392.750846
- Max Citation Score: 578.44604
- Similarity Product: 540.2586115458727

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