PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16092275
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["455", "406000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) and a method of the PCEF in a communications network of indicating to a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) charging information of a 5 subscriber received from an Online Charging System (OCS). The invention further relates to a PCRF and a method of the PCRF in a communications network of acquiring OCS charging information of a subscriber. In a first aspect, a method of a PCEF ( 20 ) in a communications network ( 10 ) of indicating to a PCRF ( 15 ) charging information of a subscriber ( 16 ) received from an OCS ( 21 ) is provided. The method comprises receiving (S 102 ), from the OCS, the charging information of the subscriber requesting a service in the communications network, and submitting (S103), over Gx reference point to the PCRF, a Rule-Failure-Code associated with the charging information received from the OCS.

Claim (Index 42):
The PCEF of  claim 38 , wherein the instructions are such that the PCEF is operative to receive, from the PCRF, an indication that at least one Policy and Charging Control (PCC) rule is changed or removed for the subscriber in response to the Rule-Failure-Code submitted to the PCRF.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88525
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12772851', '13579001', '13277626', '13630354', '13098594']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7851034292295208
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5378190473919195
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7603749910457607
- Mean Citation Score: 385.42009
- Max Citation Score: 398.23795
- Similarity Product: 248.24650182961528

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

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