PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16238938
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "248000"]

Abstract:
This application discloses a service chain fault detection method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a service forwarding entity (SFE), to communicate with a first service function (SF) node on a service chain after obtaining a first fault tracing detection request packet, wherein the first fault tracing detection request packet comprises a path identifier (ID), and the path ID is used to identify a path of the service chain; obtaining, by the SFE, an ID of the first SF node; and sending, by the SFE, a first fault tracing detection response packet to the device for initiating fault detection, wherein the first fault tracing detection response packet comprises the path ID and the ID of the first SF node.

Claim (Index 13):
The service forwarding apparatus according to  claim 10 , wherein the first fault tracing detection request packet further comprises a node list, and the node list comprises an ID of the previous-hop SF node of the first SF node on the service chain;\n wherein the processor is further instructed to: obtain an updated node list, wherein the updated node list is a list generated after the ID of the first SF node is added to the node list, and an order of all SF nodes comprised in the updated node list is the same as an order of all the SF nodes on the service chain; and add the updated node list to the first fault tracing detection response packet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66038
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15360234', '15393444', '14497530', '15430795', '15961532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5629295365539608
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6145117608384146
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5680877589824062
- Mean Citation Score: 292.1097640000001
- Max Citation Score: 559.0591400000002
- Similarity Product: 497.1711536206224

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