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 15):
A method according to  claim 13 , wherein if the operational status of the at least one service function is down, directing the data packet to an equivalent service function with an operational status of up.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95556
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15483534', '15226758', '15056516', '15827807', '14161261']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5744579821945609
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.48756864684444
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5657690486595488
- Mean Citation Score: 190.735108
- Max Citation Score: 194.03911
- Similarity Product: 132.30595194671034

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