PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16123193
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["709", "226000"]

Abstract:
Micro-schedulers control bandwidth allocation for clients, each client subscribing to a respective predefined portion of bandwidth of an outgoing communication link. A macro-scheduler controls the micro-schedulers, by allocating the respective subscribed portion of bandwidth associated with each respective client that is active, by a predefined first deadline, with residual bandwidth that is unused by the respective clients being shared proportionately among respective active clients by a predefined second deadline, while minimizing coordination among micro-schedulers by the macro-scheduler periodically adjusting respective bandwidth allocations to each micro-scheduler.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of controlling bandwidth allocation for a plurality of clients sharing a common outgoing communication link at a server, the clients individually subscribing to a predefined portion of the outgoing transmission bandwidth, the method comprising, comprising:\n determining whether the outgoing communication link is currently congested based on a comparison of a periodic total bit rate of outgoing transmissions at the outgoing communication link and a predefined threshold; and in response to determining that the outgoing communication link is currently congested:\n allocating a respective amount of outgoing transmission bandwidth up to the respective predefined portion that each active client is subscribed to, by a predefined first deadline; \n subsequent to an initial period, allocating residual bandwidth that is unused by the clients proportionately among active clients by a predefined second deadline, wherein the predefined first deadline and the predefined second deadline differ by a time interval of the initial period; and \n periodically repeating the allocating the respective amount and allocating the residual bandwidth operations over additional periods subsequent to the initial period to provide an at least approximation of fair queuing for the clients.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14601214', '13889245', '14618391', '13779014', '10787689']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2153544488823377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5998651833000559
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2538055223241095
- Mean Citation Score: 243.607712
- Max Citation Score: 512.71326
- Similarity Product: 482.304379599967

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