PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018946
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "390000"]

Abstract:
An SFC-based communications method and system, and an apparatus are provided. The SFC includes a CF node, an SFF node, and an SF node, and the SFF node is connected to the SF node. The method includes: receiving, by the CF node, a first message from the SFF node; obtaining, by the CF node, network topology information of the SFC based on the first message; obtaining, by the CF node, an SFC forwarding table, where the SFC forwarding table is determined based on the network topology information of the SFC; and sending, by the CF node to the SFF node, a second message used to indicate the SFC forwarding table. In this way, a network topology of the SFC can be flexibly and efficiently discovered.

Claim (Index 2):
The communication method according to  claim 1 , wherein the receiving, by the CF node, a first message from the SFF node comprises:\n receiving, by the CF node, the first message from the SFF node in a multicast manner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72222
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15559828', '14725222', '15393444', '15124196', '15121842']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5995133882357695
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4991100601700746
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5894730554292
- Mean Citation Score: 239.60068
- Max Citation Score: 252.47084
- Similarity Product: 181.28045738049985

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