PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030852
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "252000"]

Abstract:
A server selects edge-server sets to deliver data to client devices. To rapidly find an optimal or near-optimal edge-server set, the server constructs a trellis having a number of states at least equal to the number of edge servers to be included in an edge-server set. Each state comprises a plurality of nodes, wherein each node corresponds to one of the plurality of candidate edge servers. A trellis-exploration algorithm selects the edge-server set by providing interconnects between each node of a first state to each of a plurality of nodes in a next state, and for each node in a state, selecting a path corresponding to a best performance metric that connects to a node in a previous state. Each performance metric comprises network topology information, which can include channel measurements from candidate edge servers. When the edge-server set is selected, the server distributes content to the edge servers, which is then transmitted to the client devices.

Claim (Index 16):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory including a set of instructions stored thereon and executable by the processor for:\n constructing a trellis having a number of states at least equal to a number of edge servers to be included in an edge-server set, wherein each state comprises a plurality of nodes, each node corresponding to one of the plurality of candidate edge servers; \n calculating a fitness function based on network performance and cost corresponding to each candidate edge server and the network topology information;\n employing a trellis-exploration algorithm to select the edge-server set, by identifying a path through the trellis having optimal path metrics derived from the fitness function, comprising providing interconnects between each node of a first state to each of a plurality of nodes in a next state, and for each node in a state, selecting a path corresponding to a best path metric that connects to a node in a previous state, wherein the best path metric comprises the fitness function; and \n \n distributing data signals to the edge-server set, the data signals to be transmitted to client devices being served by the edge-server set.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07317
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15075975', '15076000', '15152028', '13647686', '14168442']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5558282421464238
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5466448998860699
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5549099079203884
- Mean Citation Score: 348.252318
- Max Citation Score: 396.06512
- Similarity Product: 355.88529477179526

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