PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907777
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "018000"]

Abstract:
A method and switch are provided for reconfigurable optical space switch. The method includes receiving a control signal, from a controller, to configure a path through the reconfigurable optical space switch. The method also includes applying a voltage to one or more direction changing devices at each intersection between each of the east-west optical waveguides and each of the north-south optical waveguides to form the path through the reconfigurable optical space switch. The method additionally includes receiving an optical signal in one of a plurality of passive waveguides at a beginning of the path, including the plurality of east-west optical waveguides and the plurality of north-south optical waveguides. The method further includes outputting the optical signal out on of the plurality of passive waveguides at an end of the path.

Claim (Index 19):
The method as recited in  claim 11 , wherein the one or more direction changing devices includes active vertical coupler units on top of the plurality of passive waveguides and two vertical coupler units on the bottom of the plurality of waveguides.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50909
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15907728', '15907864', '13455284', '14595241', '14331318']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7800900661030592
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5228483672932039
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7543658962220737
- Mean Citation Score: 193.335682
- Max Citation Score: 309.80527
- Similarity Product: 234.1250105495417

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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