PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16086642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["370", "315000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting flows of data units across a data communication network from a transmitting node towards an intended destination via one or more intermediate nodes, the data units having destination indications, the intermediate nodes being configured to receive data units, identify therefrom a transmission mode that has been selected from at least two transmission modes for the data units, and forward the data units according to the selected transmission mode. The method involves selecting a transmission mode for the flow in dependence on an estimate of the difference in the amount of a resource required to transmit the flow by one or the other transmission mode, a resource-usage measure indicative of the amount of the resource required to identify a route and reserve sufficient capacity thereon for transmission of the flow, and a probability measure indicative of a likelihood of success of an attempt to identify and reserve sufficient capacity for the flow.

Claim (Index 5):
A method according to  claim 1  wherein at least one of the resource-usage measures indicative of estimated amounts of the predetermined resource required to be used in attempts to identify routes and/or the probability measure indicative of a likelihood of success are obtained in dependence on one or more of: information obtained during a training mode; information obtained from another transmitting node; information obtained from a network control entity; information obtained from transmission of one or more previous flows; information obtained from one or more unsuccessful attempts to transmit one or more previous flows; attempts to identify and reserve sufficient capacity on routes from the transmitting node to an intended destination in respect of one or more previous flows.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12821
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10735129', '10613210', '10532636', '15578578', '13256773']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5518891023172755
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4980291914891053
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5465031112344585
- Mean Citation Score: 172.182548
- Max Citation Score: 178.0223
- Similarity Product: 105.3391616899252

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

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