PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877258
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
The present invention discloses a method carried out by a first communications device for determining performance of a plurality of connections and selecting at least one first connection from the plurality of connections substantially based on performance. Data packets are then transmitted through the at least one first connection. The plurality of connections are aggregated to form an aggregated connection. The determining of performance is performed by transmitting evaluation packets through the plurality of connections. The evaluation packets are based on data packets that are received by the first communication device but have not yet been transmitted through the aggregated connection. The data packets may be designated for a host or node reachable through the aggregated connection. Alternatively, the evaluation packets may be based on predefined information when there are no data packets to be transmitted through the aggregated connection. The performance may be determined periodically.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for transmitting data packets through a plurality of connections at a first communication device, wherein the plurality of connections are established between the first communication device and a second communication device, comprising the steps of:\n a. determining performance of at least one of the plurality of connections; b. determining a first group of connections based on the performance of the at least one of the plurality of connections; c. creating a first plurality of data packets; d. transmitting the first plurality of data packets through the first group of connections at about the same time; and e. performing step(a) from time to time; wherein the performance of the at least one of the plurality of connections is determined based on transmission and receipt of the first plurality of data packets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24638
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15462951', '14410099', '13935577', '13935578', '15441260']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5608039037873678
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5072311091082148
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5554466243194525
- Mean Citation Score: 253.949752
- Max Citation Score: 303.7376
- Similarity Product: 242.9021516586304

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

Dataset: test