PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907499
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["709", "223000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are configured to receive and process an attach request from a communication element of a communication network. A response to the attached request is prepared, and transmission of the response is caused. The preparing of the response includes first identification data identifying the virtualized network function and second identification data identifying an intermediate network element or network function being related to the virtualized network function.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n at least one processor; and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processor; wherein the at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: receive and process an attach request from a communication element of a communication network for attaching to a virtualized network function providing services related to the communication network, prepare a response to the attach request, and cause transmission of the response to the requesting communication element, wherein the preparing of the response comprises including first identification data identifying the virtualized network function and second identification data identifying an intermediate network element or network function being related to the virtualized network function and to which messages related to the virtualized network function are to be directed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78049
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15112039', '15907525', '15907455', '15559903', '14431979']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.261077228914702
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5294545528070095
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2879149613039327
- Mean Citation Score: 293.442204
- Max Citation Score: 354.16443
- Similarity Product: 269.21199615717893

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

Dataset: test