PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871581
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "232000"]

Abstract:
A method for performing in-band operations, administration, and management (OAM) using fixed bytes. According to one aspect, data packets are selected from a packet flow according to a sampling rate. A network device's OAM information is inserted into a fixed length field of each selected packet as a selected packet is processed by the network device.

Claim (Index 17):
The network device of  claim 13 , wherein the packets from the packet flow are selected by selecting a first packet in the packet flow that does not contain the OAM information of an upstream network device, and selecting every fixed number of packets after the first packet from the packet flow.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38298
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12724102', '12119939', '12982734', '14879185', '15392355']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5108029359317445
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4786382398206314
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5075864663206332
- Mean Citation Score: 165.586118
- Max Citation Score: 170.89851000000004
- Similarity Product: 128.67652769309703

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