PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972447
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["365", "189050"]

Abstract:
A low-latency, high-bandwidth, and highly scalable method delivers data from a source device to multiple communication devices on a communication network. Under this method, the communication devices (also called player nodes) provide download and upload bandwidths for each other. In this manner, the bandwidth requirement on the data source is significantly reduced. Such a data delivery network is scalable without limits with the number of player nodes. In one embodiment, a computer network includes (a) a source server that provides a data stream for delivery in the computer network, (b) player nodes that exchange data with each other to obtain a complete copy of the data stream, the network nodes being capable of dynamically joining or exiting the computer network, and (c) a control server which maintains a topology graph representing connections between the source server and the player nodes, and the connections among the player nodes themselves. In one embodiment, the control server is associated with a network address (e.g., an IP address) known to both the source server and the player nodes. The data stream may include, for example, a real-time broadcast of a sports event.

Claim (Index 13):
In a data processing network, a method comprising:\n providing a data source which distributes data throughout the data processing network; and providing a plurality of processors each receiving data from the data source and each being assigned to one of a plurality of groups, each processor having a number of in-link connected to other processors over which the processor receives data and a number of out-links over which the processor provides data to other processors, wherein, for each processor, (i) the processor is associated with a root distance from the data source, the root distance being a least number of in-links and out-links between the processor and the processor, and (ii) the in-links provide a input bandwidth, the out-links provide an output bandwidth and the input bandwidth, and the input bandwidth and the output bandwidth are within a predetermined bandwidth value of each other; and wherein (i) the data source divides the data into a plurality of portions and provides different portions of the data to processors of different groups; and (ii) the root distances of any two processors connected to each other by an in-link or an out-link is less than a predetermined root-distance value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24742
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11623045', '11942257', '12506725', '15772240', '10887406']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7409080310187552
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5064156166135936
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.717458789578239
- Mean Citation Score: 177.23354799999996
- Max Citation Score: 259.93698
- Similarity Product: 173.74872283544187

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