PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005444
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Packet network node and method of operating packet network node. Conventional packet network nodes react to congestion in packet network by dropping packets in a manner which is perceived by users to be indiscriminate. In the described system, indiscriminate packet discards are prevented by causing packets to be discarded on lower priority flows and flow aggregates. Further action is taken to reduce the likelihood of packet discards through: (1) classification of flows that are not observable at the point in the network where flow-based packet discards are deployed, but are consuming bandwidth and signaling classification information to flow-based packet discard function or a flow-based monitoring function or network management function; (2) classification of flows making use of extended monitoring functions that are not co-located with a flow-based packet discard function, where extended monitoring functions may perform monitoring of a flow or a group of flows over a period of time.

Claim (Index 14):
The packet network according to  claim 13 , further comprising means to determine that the signaled flow identity included in the signals is included or is not included in the store of packet flow identifiers and, means arranged in operation to perform packet discard actions based on excess packet flow rate or excess packet flow rate jitter, wherein:\n a) where the means are arranged in operation so that packet flows or packet flow aggregates or groups of packet flows are monitored by the Flow State Aware network function receiving the signals so that the packet flow rate or packet flow rate jitter of the packet flows or the groups of packet flows or the packet flow aggregates is checked against permissible packet flow rate limits or packet flow rate jitter limits, and where a signaled packet flow identity was not previously included in the store of flow identifiers of the Flow State Aware network function, then the means are arranged in operation so that the packet flow rate limits or packet flow rate jitter limits are adjusted to take account of extra capacity assigned to the flow identity included in the signals, where the means determine adjustments of the packet flow rate limits or the packet flow rate jitter limits from the signaled classification information associated with the signaled packet flow identity, or determined from the monitored information included in the signals; and b) where the signals indicate the packet flow of the packet flow identity has ceased to flow, and where, optionally, means are arranged in operation so that the packet flows or the packet flow aggregates or the groups of packet flows are monitored by the Flow State Aware network function receiving the signals so that the packet flow rate or packet flow rate jitter of the packet flows or the groups of packet flows or the packet flow aggregates is checked against permissible packet flow rate limits or packet flow rate jitter limits, then means are arranged in operation so that the packet flow rate limits or the packet flow rate jitter limits are adjusted to take account of capacity assigned to the signaled packet flow identity, where the adjustments of the packet flow rate limits or the packet flow rate jitter limits and capacity assignments are determined by the means from the signaled classification information associated with the signaled packet flow identity or determined from the monitored information included in the signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91765
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14146992', '12844782', '12828150', '15688712', '14171605']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5271762825076721
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5992164425997921
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5343802985168842
- Mean Citation Score: 338.025408
- Max Citation Score: 502.8712
- Similarity Product: 489.3070707007408

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

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