PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16311257
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["398", "045000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a technology for simultaneously monitoring a plurality of relay devices. A relay device  1  comprises a superimposing unit  2  and a monitor unit  3 . The relay device  1  is interposed on an optical transmission path between optical communication devices that send and receive an optical signal, and has a function for relaying the optical signal flowing through the optical transmission path. The monitor unit  3  monitors the operation status of the relay device  1 . At a predetermined timing, the superimposing unit  2  superimposes monitor unit  3  monitoring-information onto an optical signal of a primary signal flowing through the optical transmission path, by performing modulation processing on the basis of an oscillation signal having a predetermined oscillation frequency. The relay device  1  can spontaneously superimpose the monitoring information onto an optical signal and transmit same.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for transmitting monitoring information, comprising:\n monitoring an operation status of a relay device that relays an optical signal flowing through an optical transmission path between terminal stations as optical communication devices that transmit and receive the optical signal; superimposing monitoring information based on the monitoring operation onto the optical signal of a primary signal at a predetermined timing by performing modulation processing based on an oscillation signal having a predetermined oscillation frequency, the primary signal being an optical signal which flows through an optical transmission path between terminal stations and containing information of a transmission object; and transmitting the optical signal containing the monitoring information toward a monitoring apparatus to monitor the relay device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19697
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10740539', '10073195', '10530976', '16140742', '12620121']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6682904316160024
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4947964805826527
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6509410365126675
- Mean Citation Score: 192.892056
- Max Citation Score: 211.27718
- Similarity Product: 168.97974852590798

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

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