PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16458699
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "241000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a trace request packet at a service node on a service chain, the trace request packet comprising a service index limit that remains constant for use in identifying at least one service node in the service chain to generate a trace report packet, and processing the trace request packet and determining whether to forward the trace request packet on the service chain or to generate the trace report packet based on a comparison of a service index to the service index limit in the trace request packet, wherein the trace report packet includes service function information of a plurality of service functions in the service chain, and the trace request packet is forwarded on the service chain according to a service path identifier and the service index.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 14  wherein the service function information comprises service function type.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7451
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14803649', '15868779', '15427230', '14560146', '15275833']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5103946326158196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.499832418876274
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5093384112418651
- Mean Citation Score: 182.907464
- Max Citation Score: 227.05249
- Similarity Product: 163.53558684148433

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