PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042828
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["455", "414100"]

Abstract:
A network function (NF) profile repository function (NPRF) is provided to receive, for each one of a plurality of NF instances of a plurality of different NF types, information associated with the NF instance and store the information in memory. The NPRF may then also receive, from an NF repository function (NRF), a message which indicates a request for information associated with one or more NF instances of an indicated NF type. In response, the NPRF may retrieve, from the memory based on the indicated NF type, information associated with the one or more NF instances. The NPRF may send, to the NRF, a message which indicates a response to the request, where the response includes retrieved information associated with the one or more NF instances.

Claim (Index 8):
Network equipment for use in a mobile network, the network equipment comprising:\n one or more processors; one or more non-transitory memories; program instructions stored in the one or more non-transitory memories, the program instructions comprising a repository function; one or more interfaces for communication with a network function (NF) repository function (NRF) and a network data analytics; the one or more processors being operative in accordance with the program instructions comprising the repository function to:\n for each one of a plurality of NF instances, receive information associated with an NF instance and store the information in memory, the information including at least identification information associated with the NF instance; \n for each one of the plurality of NF instances, receive a loading indication of the NF instance from the network data analytics function, the loading indication indicating a current loading of the NF instance; \n receive, the NRF, a message which indicates a request for information associated with a selected plurality of NF instances of an indicated NF type; \n retrieve, from the memory, information associated with the selected plurality of NF instances based on the indicated NF type; and \n cause a message which indicates a response to the request to be sent to the NRF, the response including the retrieved information associated with the selected plurality of NF instances, the retrieved information including at least the identification information and the loading indication for each NF instance of the selected plurality of NF instances of the indicated NF type.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5614
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15488809', '15795532', '15849694', '15855859', '15698199']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.687764009049559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4861541359405728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6676030217386605
- Mean Citation Score: 199.233032
- Max Citation Score: 216.6205
- Similarity Product: 160.60269767546654

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

Dataset: test