PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16024365
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["370", "351000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for controlling packet transmission levels in a multi-hop network may be performed in a distributed manner. Load-control functionality may be distributed among a plurality of nodes within a network, allowing such nodes to send feedback to upstream nodes, and receive feedback from downstream nodes. In an example, received packets are measured, such as by summing sizes of received packets over time, to determine a received traffic-level. Transmitted packets are measured, such as by summing sizes of transmitted packets over time, to determine a transmitted traffic-level. Feedback may be sent to at least one source of the received packets based at least in part on the received traffic-level and the transmitted traffic-level. The feedback may indicate a desired rate for the sender to transmit. A node may receive data from upstream node(s) and from an internal device, such as a metrology unit. Both data sources may be controlled by feedback.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , additionally comprising:\n receiving, at a network device, packets from a first source device external to the network device over a network and from a second source device local to the network device; and sending, from the network device, the determined feedback to the first source device and a second feedback to the second source device, wherein:\n the determined feedback and the second feedback are based at least in part on a first weight and a second weight, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1125
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13648077', '13655034', '14174747', '13648039', '09624085']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4425158451361304
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4728262134601401
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4455468819685314
- Mean Citation Score: 118.882738
- Max Citation Score: 128.9536
- Similarity Product: 86.8566601032257

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

Dataset: test