PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005444
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Packet network node and method of operating packet network node. Conventional packet network nodes react to congestion in packet network by dropping packets in a manner which is perceived by users to be indiscriminate. In the described system, indiscriminate packet discards are prevented by causing packets to be discarded on lower priority flows and flow aggregates. Further action is taken to reduce the likelihood of packet discards through: (1) classification of flows that are not observable at the point in the network where flow-based packet discards are deployed, but are consuming bandwidth and signaling classification information to flow-based packet discard function or a flow-based monitoring function or network management function; (2) classification of flows making use of extended monitoring functions that are not co-located with a flow-based packet discard function, where extended monitoring functions may perform monitoring of a flow or a group of flows over a period of time.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of operating a packet subnet comprising:\n a) receiving one or more communication packets indicative of a commencement of a new packet flow through the packet subnet, the new packet flow comprising one or a plurality of packets; b) responsive to detection of the commencement of the new packet flow, storing a flow identifier, and enabling identification of the one or more communication packets belonging to the new packet flow; c) retrieving policy information relating to a determination of initial or sustained QoS treatment of the new packet flow; and d) responsive to the detection of the commencement of the new packet flow: when the policy information indicates that there are the one or more Flow State Aware network functions that are located at different points in the packet subnet and that are to be informed about the new packet flow, forwarding signals to the one or more Flow State Aware network functions by the packet subnet or through dedicated links, wherein the signals comprise an identity of the new packet flow or identities of a group of new packet flows or an identity of a new packet flow aggregate together with monitored QoS treatment information related to the identity of the new packet flow or the identities of the group of new packet flows or the identity of the new packet flow aggregate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91765
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14146992', '12844782', '12828150', '15688712', '14171605']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5275526656897694
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5983550189937571
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5346329010201682
- Mean Citation Score: 338.025408
- Max Citation Score: 502.8712
- Similarity Product: 484.8762141145706

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

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