PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16092275
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["455", "406000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) and a method of the PCEF in a communications network of indicating to a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) charging information of a 5 subscriber received from an Online Charging System (OCS). The invention further relates to a PCRF and a method of the PCRF in a communications network of acquiring OCS charging information of a subscriber. In a first aspect, a method of a PCEF ( 20 ) in a communications network ( 10 ) of indicating to a PCRF ( 15 ) charging information of a subscriber ( 16 ) received from an OCS ( 21 ) is provided. The method comprises receiving (S 102 ), from the OCS, the charging information of the subscriber requesting a service in the communications network, and submitting (S103), over Gx reference point to the PCRF, a Rule-Failure-Code associated with the charging information received from the OCS.

Claim (Index 45):
The PCRF of  claim 44 , wherein the instructions are such that the PCRF is operative to submit to an Application Function (AF), over an Rx reference point, a message notifying the AF about the Rule-Failure-Code received from the PCEF.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88525
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12772851', '13579001', '13277626', '13630354', '13098594']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7855580183050211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5369863835700944
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7607008548315284
- Mean Citation Score: 385.42009
- Max Citation Score: 398.23795
- Similarity Product: 231.9418146617741

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

Dataset: test