PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005444
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Packet network node and method of operating packet network node. Conventional packet network nodes react to congestion in packet network by dropping packets in a manner which is perceived by users to be indiscriminate. In the described system, indiscriminate packet discards are prevented by causing packets to be discarded on lower priority flows and flow aggregates. Further action is taken to reduce the likelihood of packet discards through: (1) classification of flows that are not observable at the point in the network where flow-based packet discards are deployed, but are consuming bandwidth and signaling classification information to flow-based packet discard function or a flow-based monitoring function or network management function; (2) classification of flows making use of extended monitoring functions that are not co-located with a flow-based packet discard function, where extended monitoring functions may perform monitoring of a flow or a group of flows over a period of time.

Claim (Index 12):
The packet network node according to  claim 11 , further comprising means to:\n a) classify a packet flow based on the policy information and the monitored information, such that classification of the packet flow indicates the QoS treatment applied to the packet flow, the QoS treatment comprising: i) preference priority applied to the packet flow at a Flow State Aware network function to determine a probability of the Flow State Aware network function being selected for packet discards in an event of congestion conditions; ii) guaranteed bandwidth assigned to the packet flow; iii) expected packet flow rate or measured packet flow rate; and iv) delay limits applied to the packet flow relating to the scheduling of packets of the packet flow at the Flow State Aware network function for forwarding on an output link, and b) including classification information in the signals forwarded to the Flow State Aware network functions via the packet subnet or through the dedicated links, or means arranged in operation to receive the classification information from the signals and to assign the classification information in the signals to the packet flow identity or to the identity of a group of packet flows or the identity of the packet flow aggregate such that the classification information is retrievable by inspection of stored information related to packet flow identity to the identity of a group of packet flows or the identity of the packet flow aggregate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91765
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14146992', '12844782', '12828150', '15688712', '14171605']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5278599058691821
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.597651304202401
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.534839045702504
- Mean Citation Score: 338.025408
- Max Citation Score: 502.8712
- Similarity Product: 481.25928681416514

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

Dataset: test