PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16009521
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
Metadata may be embedded in a service chain header (SCH) appended to a packet that is forwarded over a service chain path. The metadata may include information that is used to process the packet at a downstream service function chain (SFC) entity on the service chain path. The metadata TLV field may identify a service action to be performed by a downstream SFC entity. For example, the metadata TLV field may instruct the downstream SFC entity to drop the packet, to redirect the packet (or a traffic flow associated with the packet), to mirror a traffic flow, to terminate a communication connection, to start or stop a packet accounting, and/or to apply a higher grade of service. In another embodiment, the metadata TLV field specifies an OAM service action list that identifies service actions that have been performed on the packet.

Claim (Index 25):
The first SFC entity of  claim 21 , wherein the SCH further comprises a version field for backward compatibility with future SCH updates.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14865
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14806351', '14725222', '15619218', '14884523', '15049521']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.600869587597195
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5662415153430082
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5974067803717763
- Mean Citation Score: 324.72079200000013
- Max Citation Score: 519.8747599999998
- Similarity Product: 334.73361889556395

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