PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926459
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
Applying a virtual network function (VNF) chain includes storing, in a shared data repository, configuration data used to configure VNFs of the VNF chain within a network node. Hierarchical version control of the configuration data allows VNF's, which are logically arranged in a sequential fashion, yet have the ability to process frames in parallel, to track which frames are governed by a hierarchy that may be manipulated based on external events such as fail-overs, or configuration changes.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 4 ,\n wherein the first VNF is reconfigured, subsequent to the first VNF completing processing the first data frame, using the second version of the configuration data block, and wherein a second VNF of the plurality of sequential VNFs, downstream of the first VNF in the VNF chain, being reconfigured, processes the second data frame based on the second version of the configuration data block if an upstream VNF in the VNF chain processed the second data frame based on the second version of the configuration data block.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.46667
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15081378', '14939674', '15197754', '14978569', '15342824']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5580573759730577
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4946396660854225
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5517156049842942
- Mean Citation Score: 181.84657
- Max Citation Score: 188.47908
- Similarity Product: 118.38821092150214

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