PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906167
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for redirecting service or device discovery (SD) messages in a software-defined network (SDN) is provided. The SDN comprises a plurality of network nodes, one or more SD serving nodes, and a server. The one or more network nodes of the plurality of network nodes are instructed by the server to redirect received broadcast or multicast SD messages as unicast or multicast SD messages to one or more selected SD serving nodes.

Claim (Index 12):
The network node of  claim 11 , wherein the network node is configured to:\n receive the instruction to update its flow table with a set of redirection rules in response to a control message received from a server, wherein the flow table defines forwarding rules to be applied to messages arriving at the network node.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90909
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12096621', '13574903', '14069699', '15245980', '14948848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5197373140619388
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5140269410381081
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5191662767595557
- Mean Citation Score: 219.273166
- Max Citation Score: 255.6767
- Similarity Product: 165.97186282612088

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

Dataset: test