PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751745
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["710", "018000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a counting unit ( 100 ) configured to count an amount of traffic events of a data packet traffic. The counting unit comprises a counting element ( 131 ) configured to store a value representing the amount of traffic events. The counting unit further comprises a processing unit ( 120 - 123 ) configured to detect an arrival of each data packet of the data packet traffic at the processing unit, to process each data packet and to determine whether the value at counting element ( 131 ) should be increased each time the arrival of one data packet is detected at the processing unit, wherein the processing unit ( 120 - 123 ) is configured to store a probability value p c <1 indicating a probability that the processing unit increases the value at the counting element each time the arrival of one data packet is detected at the processing unit, wherein the processing unit is configured such that when it detects the arrival of one data packet at the processing unit, it increases the value at the counting element only with the probability p c .

Claim (Index 25):
A method of counting traffic events occurring at a processing element of a network node that is configured to receive and process data packet traffic, the method comprising:\n receiving individual data packets incoming to the processing element for processing; reducing internal transport accesses performed by the processing element for counting traffic events occurring at the processing element in association with processing the individual data packets, based on updating a traffic event counter only for a defined percentage of the traffic events; and approximating the actual number of traffic events based on:\n said updating of the traffic event counter comprising, for each update, accumulating a scaled count value that is scaled according to the defined percentage and directly represents the approximate number of actual traffic events; or \n said updating of the traffic event counter comprising, for each update, accumulating an unscaled count value, and determining the approximate number of actual traffic events by scaling the unscaled count value according to the defined percentage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.15873
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15722601', '14269664', '14638753', '15492003', '14289533']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6142140859377329
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4938175140347388
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6021744287474334
- Mean Citation Score: 171.43697200000005
- Max Citation Score: 186.99356
- Similarity Product: 121.64674486254216

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