PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018946
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "390000"]

Abstract:
An SFC-based communications method and system, and an apparatus are provided. The SFC includes a CF node, an SFF node, and an SF node, and the SFF node is connected to the SF node. The method includes: receiving, by the CF node, a first message from the SFF node; obtaining, by the CF node, network topology information of the SFC based on the first message; obtaining, by the CF node, an SFC forwarding table, where the SFC forwarding table is determined based on the network topology information of the SFC; and sending, by the CF node to the SFF node, a second message used to indicate the SFC forwarding table. In this way, a network topology of the SFC can be flexibly and efficiently discovered.

Claim (Index 17):
The communication method according to  claim 10 , wherein the communication method further comprises:\n receiving, by the first SFF node, a fourth message from a second SFF node in the SFC in a flood manner or a multicast manner, wherein the fourth message comprises identification information and attribute information of the second SFF node, and identification information and attribute information of a second SF node that has a connection relationship with the second SFF node, and the first SFF node and the second SFF node are different SFF nodes; obtaining, by the first SFF node, the network topology information of the SFC based on the fourth message; and sending, by the first SFF node, the first message to the second SFF node in a flood manner or a multicast manner, so that the second SFF node obtains the network topology information of the SFC based on the first message.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72222
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15559828', '14725222', '15393444', '15124196', '15121842']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5967701122096761
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5121558671717958
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5883086877058882
- Mean Citation Score: 239.60068
- Max Citation Score: 252.47084
- Similarity Product: 145.77910810975314

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

Dataset: test