PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002510
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["709", "203000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are described for extending a two-way active measurement protocol (TWAMP) to enable measurement of service key performance indicators (KPIs) in a software defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) architecture. The TWAMP extensions enable control messaging to be handled by a TWAMP control client executed on a centralized controller, and data messaging to be handled by a TWAMP session initiator executed on a separate network device. Techniques are also described for extending TWAMP to enable measurement of any of a plurality of service KPIs for a given service supported at a TWAMP server. The service KPIs may include one or more of keepalive measurements, round trip time measurements, path delay measurements, service latency measurements, or service load measurements. The TWAMP extensions for the service KPIs may be used in both conventional network architectures and in SDN and NFV architectures.

Claim (Index 17):
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed cause one or more processors to:\n establish a control connection between a two-way active measurement protocol (TWAMP) control client in a network and a TWAMP server in the network; negotiate, by the TWAMP control client, a data session for a given service supported at the TWAMP server, the negotiation including selecting one or more service key performance indicators (KPIs) to be measured for the given service; establish, by the TWAMP control client, the data session for the given service with the TWAMP server; receive, by the TWAMP server, one or more TWAMP test packets over the data session for the given service; and send, by the TWAMP server in response to the one or more TWAMP test packets, service data measurements for the selected service KPIs for the given service over the data session.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09211
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14755986', '14755961', '15376617', '15380598', '14641141']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3226600946171634
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6556515620629474
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3559592413617418
- Mean Citation Score: 478.131314
- Max Citation Score: 630.6628
- Similarity Product: 615.7624789550304

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