PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018946
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "390000"]

Abstract:
An SFC-based communications method and system, and an apparatus are provided. The SFC includes a CF node, an SFF node, and an SF node, and the SFF node is connected to the SF node. The method includes: receiving, by the CF node, a first message from the SFF node; obtaining, by the CF node, network topology information of the SFC based on the first message; obtaining, by the CF node, an SFC forwarding table, where the SFC forwarding table is determined based on the network topology information of the SFC; and sending, by the CF node to the SFF node, a second message used to indicate the SFC forwarding table. In this way, a network topology of the SFC can be flexibly and efficiently discovered.

Claim (Index 28):
The first SFF node according to  claim 25 , wherein an entry of the SFC forwarding table comprises indication information used to indicate a service function path, and the indication information comprises the identification information of the first SFF node and at least one of the identification information and the attribute information of the first SF node.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72222
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15559828', '14725222', '15393444', '15124196', '15121842']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6009581636763107
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4922268289656025
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.59008503020524
- Mean Citation Score: 239.60068
- Max Citation Score: 252.47084
- Similarity Product: 200.00985963834285

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