PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "017000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer, including: an input component, an output component, a beamsplitter, a first switch array, a wavelength dispersion system, a redirection system, and a second switch array. The input component includes M+P input ports, the output component includes N output ports, the beamsplitter is configured to: receive M input beams from M input ports, and split each of the M input beams into at least N parts, to obtain at least M×N beams; the first switch array includes at least P switch units; and the second switch array includes N rows of switch units. The first switch array, the beamsplitter, the wavelength dispersion system, the redirection system, and the second switch array are arranged so that P optical add beams and sub-beams of M×N beams in the at least M×N beams can be routed to the N output ports.

Claim (Index 2):
The reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer according to  claim 1 , further comprising a third switch array comprising at least Q switch units, wherein each of at least Q output ports is corresponding to at least one of the at least Q switch units;\n the input component further comprises the Q output ports, wherein the Q output ports are used for wavelength dropping, and Q is an integer greater than 1; the at least N parts are N+1 parts, and the at least M\u00d7N beams are M\u00d7(N+1) beams; the second switch array further comprises J rows of switch units, wherein J is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to M; and the redirection system is further configured to: receive, from the wavelength dispersion system, sub-beams of remaining M beams in the M\u00d7(N+1) beams except the M\u00d7N beams, and redirect the sub-beams of the M beams to the J rows of switch units in the second switch array, wherein the J rows of switch units route the sub-beams of the M beams to the at least Q switch units in the third switch array, the at least Q switch units separately output, to the corresponding Q output ports, the beams received from the J rows of switch units, and the second switch array, the third switch array, the wavelength dispersion system, and the redirection system are arranged so that the sub-beams of the M beams can be routed to the Q output ports.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69841
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15866058', '14761202', '14404950', '15881420', '14257846']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8324441535873492
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5150080289537218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8007005411239865
- Mean Citation Score: 289.076652
- Max Citation Score: 318.02493
- Similarity Product: 244.48225635730503

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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