PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16003632
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "252000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides performance measurement (PM) for segment routing (SR) with flexibility to have PM information piggy backed, preferably using service function chaining (SFC) to data packet itself or dedicate PM packet avoiding change in data packet. A performance measured flow (PMF) identifier is used by transit/egress nodes for statistics collection for a given PMF. The PMF identifier is carried in the piggy backed information without the use of separate SR label. The Piggy backed information carries the node information role of the node used by transit egress nodes to collect statistics for a given PM segment. The present disclosure collects the statistics for multiple segments and multiple PM types using a metadata present in single received packet, saving bandwidth and making PM calculation fast and more accurate. Using the present disclosure, the timer/configuration requirement per performance measurement instance from transit/egress node is avoided.

Claim (Index 11):
A method, to be performed by a node, for transmitting at least the data associated with a performance measurement (PM) segment selected from at least one segment in respect of communication segments in a communication network, the method comprising:\n receiving at least one packet; detecting presence of performance measurement metadata associated with the performance measurement (PM) segment in the received packet, the performance measurement metadata comprising at least one of a performance measured flow (PMF) identifier, a block identifier, measurement agent details, an associated role of the measurement agent with PM type, collected statistics information, or combination thereof; identifying at least a role of the node based on the detected performance measurement metadata; executing a performance measurement based on the identified role to collect statistics for the performance measurement (PM) segment of a flow, and at least one PM type based on the performance measurement metadata received, wherein the statistics are collected against at least one key selected from the PMF identifier, the block identifier, the associated role of the measurement agent with PM type, the collected statistics information, or any combination thereof, received in the performance measurement metadata; reporting the key and information associated with the node to at least one other node to determining performance measures associated with the segment in respect of communication segments in the communication network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88372
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13590891', '13902162', '11809534', '11809535', '13360253']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5679353888958062
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4707400158051783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5582158515867435
- Mean Citation Score: 173.821662
- Max Citation Score: 179.32054
- Similarity Product: 132.5703948789263

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

Dataset: test