PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871581
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "232000"]

Abstract:
A method for performing in-band operations, administration, and management (OAM) using fixed bytes. According to one aspect, data packets are selected from a packet flow according to a sampling rate. A network device's OAM information is inserted into a fixed length field of each selected packet as a selected packet is processed by the network device.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for performing in-band operations, administration, and management (OAM) of a network, the method comprising:\n selecting, by a network device, packets from a packet flow according to a sampling rate; and inserting, by the network device, OAM information into a fixed length field of each packet that is selected according to the sampling rate as a selected packet passes through the network device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38298
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12724102', '12119939', '12982734', '14879185', '15392355']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.479807131072383
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4812580177747755
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4799522197426223
- Mean Citation Score: 165.586118
- Max Citation Score: 170.89851000000004
- Similarity Product: 123.29036536180618

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