PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906167
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for redirecting service or device discovery (SD) messages in a software-defined network (SDN) is provided. The SDN comprises a plurality of network nodes, one or more SD serving nodes, and a server. The one or more network nodes of the plurality of network nodes are instructed by the server to redirect received broadcast or multicast SD messages as unicast or multicast SD messages to one or more selected SD serving nodes.

Claim (Index 9):
The server of  claim 7 , wherein the server is configured to:\n instruct the one or more network nodes to install new forwarding rules upon learning activation of a new SD suite in the SDN.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90909
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12096621', '13574903', '14069699', '15245980', '14948848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5187298711938969
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5186983659854834
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5187267206730556
- Mean Citation Score: 219.273166
- Max Citation Score: 255.6767
- Similarity Product: 152.73125067880153

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