PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16163505
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["398", "049000"]

Abstract:
A communication network ( 1 ) comprising an optical transport domain network ( 2 ) having optical transport nodes connected to each other via physical optical links, packet switched networks ( 3 ) each having a boundary router ( 4 ) connected to an optical transport node of said optical transport domain network ( 2 ) via an access link ( 5 ); and a network management apparatus ( 6 ) adapted to perform an automatic bandwidth management of said communication network ( 1 ), wherein said network management apparatus ( 6 ) is adapted to activate or deactivate virtual links (VL), tributary ports and cross-connections between virtual and access links in the optical transport domain ( 2 ) in response to data traffic statistics of data transmitted on said access links ( 5 ).

Claim (Index 13):
A method for performing an automatic bandwidth management in a communication network comprising the steps of:\n monitoring data traffic transmitted on access links between boundary routers of packet domains and optical transport nodes of an optical transport domain connected to said boundary routers via the access links to collect data traffic statistics of data transmitted on said access links; and performing corrective actions in the optical transport domain in response to the collected data traffic statistics by activating or deactivating virtual links in the optical transport domain, wherein current bandwidth utilization in the optical transport domain is evaluated based on data collected by a sensor agent in the packet domain and a future bandwidth utilization is predicted on the basis of monitored current bandwidth utilization dynamics, and wherein if it is detected that the available bandwidth capacity within the optical network domain is not sufficient for the monitored current and/or predicted bandwidth utilization, additional virtual links, tributary ports and cross-connections between virtual and access links are automatically activated to increase the available bandwidth capacity in the optical transport domain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18462
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15454732', '11658771', '14684483', '13233603', '10676631']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6732664075056323
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5906931382582836
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6650090805808975
- Mean Citation Score: 253.036656
- Max Citation Score: 478.1882
- Similarity Product: 406.03361642569297

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

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