PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906167
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "389000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for redirecting service or device discovery (SD) messages in a software-defined network (SDN) is provided. The SDN comprises a plurality of network nodes, one or more SD serving nodes, and a server. The one or more network nodes of the plurality of network nodes are instructed by the server to redirect received broadcast or multicast SD messages as unicast or multicast SD messages to one or more selected SD serving nodes.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of redirecting service or device discovery (SD) messages in a software-defined network (SDN) comprising a plurality of network nodes, one or more SD serving nodes and a server, the method comprising:\n instructing, by the server, one or more network nodes of the plurality of network nodes to redirect received broadcast or multicast SD messages as unicast or multicast SD messages to one or more selected SD serving nodes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90909
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12096621', '13574903', '14069699', '15245980', '14948848']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4893204080254418
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5150100856481602
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4918893757877137
- Mean Citation Score: 219.273166
- Max Citation Score: 255.6767
- Similarity Product: 156.67977954179045

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

Dataset: test