PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16086642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["370", "315000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting flows of data units across a data communication network from a transmitting node towards an intended destination via one or more intermediate nodes, the data units having destination indications, the intermediate nodes being configured to receive data units, identify therefrom a transmission mode that has been selected from at least two transmission modes for the data units, and forward the data units according to the selected transmission mode. The method involves selecting a transmission mode for the flow in dependence on an estimate of the difference in the amount of a resource required to transmit the flow by one or the other transmission mode, a resource-usage measure indicative of the amount of the resource required to identify a route and reserve sufficient capacity thereon for transmission of the flow, and a probability measure indicative of a likelihood of success of an attempt to identify and reserve sufficient capacity for the flow.

Claim (Index 11):
A method according to  claim 1  wherein the route-identification process initiated in the event that the second transmission mode is selected comprises the transmitting node sending requests to nodes on one or more routes in respect of available capacity and/or other network characteristics at the nodes and/or on links between the nodes on the one or more routes, and identifying a preferred route in dependence in responses to the requests received by the transmitting node.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12821
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10735129', '10613210', '10532636', '15578578', '13256773']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5599789096492034
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4664873544367894
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.550629754127962
- Mean Citation Score: 172.182548
- Max Citation Score: 178.0223
- Similarity Product: 142.67565651899574

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

Dataset: test