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 10):
A service or device discovery (SD) serving node for use in a software defined-defined network, SDN, the SD serving node configured to:\n receive a SD message; determine, based on a service type of the received SD message, a computing device which provides or requests a service of the service type; send a unicast response to the SD message to a sender of the SD message as indicated in the SD message, the unicast response indicating the determined computing device, and/or forward the SD message to the determined computing device; store a look-up table linking service provisions and service requests to computing devices; and update the look-up table based on received SD messages.

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): 0.5216639445641991
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5050848635573485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.520006036463514
- Mean Citation Score: 219.273166
- Max Citation Score: 255.6767
- Similarity Product: 191.2996993737817

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

Dataset: test