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 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the TWAMP control client and a TWAMP session initiator are executed on a first network device in the network, further comprising:\n establishing, by the TWAMP session initiator on the first network device and based on instructions from the TWAMP control client on the first network device, the data session for the given service with the TWAMP server on a second network device in the network; sending, by the TWAMP session initiator and to the TWAMP server, the one or more TWAMP test packets over the data session for the given service; and receiving, by both the TWAMP control client and the TWAMP session initiator on the first network device and from the TWAMP server, the 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: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14755986', '14755961', '15376617', '15380598', '14641141']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3064825256675731
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6265356379544267
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3384878368962585
- Mean Citation Score: 478.131314
- Max Citation Score: 630.6628
- Similarity Product: 523.6831365636825

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