PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005444
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Packet network node and method of operating packet network node. Conventional packet network nodes react to congestion in packet network by dropping packets in a manner which is perceived by users to be indiscriminate. In the described system, indiscriminate packet discards are prevented by causing packets to be discarded on lower priority flows and flow aggregates. Further action is taken to reduce the likelihood of packet discards through: (1) classification of flows that are not observable at the point in the network where flow-based packet discards are deployed, but are consuming bandwidth and signaling classification information to flow-based packet discard function or a flow-based monitoring function or network management function; (2) classification of flows making use of extended monitoring functions that are not co-located with a flow-based packet discard function, where extended monitoring functions may perform monitoring of a flow or a group of flows over a period of time.

Claim (Index 15):
The packet network according to  claim 12 , further comprising means arranged in operation so that where, on receipt of a the signals including the packet flow identities, and when, optionally, the Flow State Aware network function receiving the signals contains means arranged in operation to perform monitoring functions relating to the packet flows, the groups of packet flows, or the packet flow aggregate, the monitoring means at the Flow State Aware network function are responsive to the information included in the signals so that:\n a) monitoring of the packet flows, or the groups of packet flows, or the packet flow aggregate is commenced on packet flow identities not included in the signals, so that trends or correlations on packet flows additional to the packet flows included in the signals may be detected by means arranged in operation to determine trends utilizing monitored data available at one or more Flow State Aware network functions; and b) monitoring of the packet flows, or the groups of packet flows, or the packet flow aggregates is commenced on packet flow identities included in the signals, so that packet losses and packet delays are detected by means arranged in operation to perform packet loss and delay calculations utilizing monitoring data shared between the Flow State Aware network functions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91765
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14146992', '12844782', '12828150', '15688712', '14171605']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5277988399085582
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5977911400241543
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5347980699201179
- Mean Citation Score: 338.025408
- Max Citation Score: 502.8712
- Similarity Product: 481.9777806056977

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

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