PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16237410
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["398", "045000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for unifying an EPON network and a coax-based access network may include, in a network with an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) optical line terminal (OLT), coaxial network units (CNUs), and an optical coax bridge (OCB) with a plurality of virtual optical network units (vONUs) each comprising a plurality of logical link identifiers (LLIDs) and having its own MAC address, each vONU corresponding to one CNU: forming, in the OCB, each of the plurality of vONUs when a respective CNU is admitted to a coax network coupled to the OCB; communicating data transmissions from an optical fiber network to the coax network, and data transmissions from the coax network to the optical fiber network, via said OCB; and transmitting and receiving data packets between the OLT and the at least one CNU. The OCB may emulate an optical network unit (ONU) relative to the OLT.

Claim (Index 3):
A system for communication, the system comprising:\n an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) optical line terminal (OLT), a plurality of coaxial network units (CNUs), and an optical coax bridge (OCB) coupled to the CNU and comprising a plurality of virtual optical network units (vONUs) each comprising a plurality of logical link identifiers (LLIDs) and having its own MAC address, each vONU corresponding to one CNU, said OCB being operable to:\n form, in the OCB, each of the plurality of vONUs when a respective CNU is admitted to a coax network coupled to the OCB; \n communicate data transmissions between an optical fiber network and the coax network; and \n communicate data packets between the OLT and at least one CNU.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24359
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15881000', '14383623', '14484797', '13447748', '14045629']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7196664829291899
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6403208628304766
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7117319209193186
- Mean Citation Score: 418.77295600000014
- Max Citation Score: 560.8603
- Similarity Product: 552.9002446634294

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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