PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002023
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "435200"]

Abstract:
A network element selection method and a network element selector are provided. The network element selection method includes: receiving, by a network element selector, a request message sent by a base station, where the request message includes information about user equipment UE and a service chain head, the service chain head includes a session index, and the session index is empty or the session index is allocated by a first controller serving the UE; determining, by the network element selector based on the session index, a controller providing a service; and sending, by the network element selector, the request message to the controller providing the service, so that the controller providing the service serves the UE. In this application, the network element selector is deployed to provide a load balance function.

Claim (Index 6):
The network element selection method according to  claim 1 , wherein determining the controller comprises:\n obtaining, by the network element selector from the session index, an identifier of a controller that allocates the session index, and identifying that the identifier of the controller that allocates the session index is an identifier of the first controller; obtaining, by the network element selector, location information of the first controller; obtaining, by the network element selector, location information of the base station; determining, by the network element selector, a distance between the base station and the first controller based on the location information of the base station and the location information of the first controller, and determining, based on the distance between the base station and the first controller, whether to use the first controller to provide the service; and if it is determined to use the first controller to provide the service, determining, by the network element selector, that the controller providing the service is the first controller; or if it is determined not to use the first controller to provide the service, obtaining, by the network element selector, location information of a second controller other than the first controller; and determining, by the network element selector, a distance between the base station and the second controller based on the location information of the base station and the location information of the second controller, and determining, based on the distance between the base station and the second controller, the controller providing the service.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50847
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13421819', '14838287', '15982471', '14874269', '15473850']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7236721654434579
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4918202410131725
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7004869730004294
- Mean Citation Score: 182.678388
- Max Citation Score: 187.25566
- Similarity Product: 123.2551513644755

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

Dataset: test