PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859821
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["709", "226000"]

Abstract:
A life cycle management method and device for a network service are provided. The method includes determining, by an operation support system (OSS) according to a target network service (NS), an existing virtualized network function (VNF) instance required for life cycle management on the target NS; sending, by the OSS, a life cycle management request of the target NS to a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), where the life cycle management request includes a mapping relationship between an identifier of the existing VNF instance and a characteristic parameter corresponding to the identifier; and receiving, by the NFVO, the life cycle management request from the OSS for the target NS, and performing life cycle management on the target NS according to the existing VNF instance and the mapping relationship. In embodiments of the present disclosure, processing efficiency of life cycle management and resource utilization can be improved.

Claim (Index 16):
An operation support system (OSS), comprising:\n a processor configured to determine, according to life cycle management requirement information, an existing virtualized network function (VNF) instance required for life cycle management on a target network service (NS); and a communications interface coupled to the processor and configured to send a life cycle management request of the target NS to a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), wherein the life cycle management request is used to instruct the NFVO to perform life cycle management on the target NS, wherein the life cycle management request comprises a mapping relationship between an identifier of the existing VNF instance and a characteristic parameter corresponding to the identifier, and wherein the characteristic parameter is an identifier parameter that is in a target network service descriptor (NSD) and that marks each piece of VNF instance requirement information in multiple pieces of VNF instance requirement information required by the target NSD.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50746
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15638246', '15222270', '15350598', '15817560', '15654286']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2938742584942632
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5387826307708631
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3183650957219232
- Mean Citation Score: 367.349672
- Max Citation Score: 386.6215
- Similarity Product: 305.1449887862802

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