PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030226
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
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 23):
A network device in a network, the network device comprising:\n a memory; and one or more processors in communication with the memory and configured to execute a two-way active measurement protocol (TWAMP) session initiator, the TWAMP session initiator configured to:\n receive, from a TWAMP control client on a centralized controller device of the network over a control connection, a set of TWAMP control messages instructing the TWAMP session initiator to establish a data session for a given service supported at a TWAMP server on a second network device in the network; \n establish the data session for the given service with the TWAMP server; \n receive, from the TWAMP server, service data measurements for the given service over the data session; and \n send, to the TWAMP control client over the control connection, the service data measurements for the given service.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09211
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14755961', '16002510', '14755986', '15376617', '15380598']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3841657907935958
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6525545309712109
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4110046648113574
- Mean Citation Score: 545.3939519999999
- Max Citation Score: 649.53174
- Similarity Product: 628.9062658757472

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

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