PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16120419
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["398", "045000"]

Abstract:
Technologies for optical communication in a rack cluster in a data center are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, a network switch is connected to each of 1,024 sleds by an optical cable that enables communication at a rate of 200 gigabits per second. The optical cable has low loss, allowing for long cable lengths, which in turn allows for connecting to a large number of sleds. The optical cable also has a very high intrinsic bandwidth limit, allowing for the bandwidth to be upgraded without upgrading the optical infrastructure.

Claim (Index 1):
A system comprising:\n a plurality of network switches, each network switch of the plurality of network switches comprising a plurality of optical connectors; a plurality of sleds, each sled of the plurality of sleds comprising a circuit board, an optical connecter mounted on the circuit board, and one or more physical resources mounted on the circuit board; a plurality of passive optical cables, wherein each passive optical cable of the plurality of passive optical cables comprises:\n at least two optical fibers; \n a first connector at a first end of the passive optical cable connected to an optical connector of a sled of a plurality of sleds; and \n a second connector at a second end of the passive optical cable connected to an optical connector of the plurality of optical connectors of a corresponding network switch of the plurality of the network switches, \n wherein each of the plurality of sleds is connected to each of the plurality of network switches by at least one of the plurality of passive optical cables.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56452
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15396035', '15395203', '15396647', '15396646', '15856220']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6290106425493642
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4874998344097733
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6148595617354052
- Mean Citation Score: 197.271238
- Max Citation Score: 229.93509
- Similarity Product: 227.4624801625121

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

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