PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107944
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
A process capable of facilitating network communication using forwarders or vforwarders interconnected via an overlay network is disclosed. The process, in one aspect, is able to receive a packet stream or network traffic from a customer premise equipment (“CPE”) using a point-to-point (“PTP”) connection via the overlay network. After identifying a service component able to provide a network function (“NF”) in accordance with the packet stream, at least a portion of the packet stream is forwarded to the service component via a second PTP connection through the overlay network according to a set of predefined requirements. Upon receipt of a processed packet stream in response to the packet stream from the service component, the processed packet stream is forwarded to another forwarder via a hop-to-hop (“HTH”) link through the overlay network in accordance with the processed packet stream.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein forwarding at least a portion of the first packet flow from the first VFd to the second VFd includes facilitating the portion of the first packet flow to travel one (1) hop via the HTH EW link to reach the second VFd.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28169
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15249127', '15203051', '15867416', '13332499', '14945862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4955424569088504
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.547229482976796
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.500711159515645
- Mean Citation Score: 206.219042
- Max Citation Score: 389.43594
- Similarity Product: 299.4351498680985

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