PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16077136
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["398", "058000"]

Abstract:
In the elastic optical network, there has been the problem that processing steps increase that are required to re-optimize client signals to be concentrated; therefore, an optical network controller according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes reallocation detection means for monitoring an operation status of at least one of an optical communication channel and an optical node device that constitute an optical network, and determining, based on the operation status, whether or not to reallocate a client signal accommodated in an optical path set in the optical network; design-candidate exclusion means for designating, as a design exclusion object, at least one of the optical communication channel and the optical node device that are associated with an optical path targeted for reallocation that accommodates the client signal that the reallocation detection means has determined to reallocate; optical path design means for determining an alternative route for the optical path targeted for reallocation from among routes with the exception of the design exclusion object; traffic reference means for determining the client signal to be reaccommodated in an optical path on the alternative route, referring to demand traffic accommodated in the optical path targeted for reallocation; and line concentration design means for constituting line-concentration traffic in which traffic having been allocated to the alternative route and the demand traffic are concentrated, wherein the traffic reference means determines a reallocation optical path in which an optical path candidate with number of occupied wavelength slots increasing is excluded from optical path candidates on the alternative route, and the optical path design means determines wavelength allocation of the reallocation optical path so as to accommodate the line-concentration traffic.

Claim (Index 4):
The optical network controller according to  claim 1 wherein the reallocation detection section includes a wavelength slot fragmentation detection section configured to monitor a fragmentation indicator regarding a wavelength slot in the optical communication channel as the operation status.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74528
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13879184', '15513450', '15526093', '14759607', '13598949']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6506126619680302
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5164821416574504
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6371996099369723
- Mean Citation Score: 200.81836
- Max Citation Score: 217.35434
- Similarity Product: 155.28742236599328

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

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