PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15769114
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["398", "007000"]

Abstract:
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, apparatus is provided for protecting an optical link arranged to carry upstream optical signals and downstream optical signals. The apparatus comprises a first detector arranged to selectively detect a downstream optical signal received at a second port having a first wavelength and a second detector arranged to selectively detect a downstream optical signal received at the second port having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The apparatus further comprises control circuitry arranged to cause a protection switch to selectively couple a third port to the second port instead of to the first port based on the detecting by the first detector and the second detector. Also provided is a second apparatus for protecting the optical link. The second apparatus comprises a bypass element arranged to selectively direct at least a portion of an upstream optical signal at the first wavelength, received at a fourth port, such that a downstream optical signal at the first wavelength is transmitted from a fifth port.

Claim (Index 31):
A system for protecting an optical link, the system comprising:\n apparatus, according to  claim 18 , for protecting the optical link; and a second apparatus for protecting the optical link, the second apparatus comprising:\n a fourth port for coupling to an end of the optical link; \n a fifth port for coupling to an end of a further optical link; \n one or more sixth ports for outputting upstream optical signals received over the optical link and for receiving downstream optical signals for transmission over the optical link; and \n a bypass element arranged to selectively direct at least a portion of an upstream optical signal, having a first wavelength and received at the fourth port, such that a downstream optical signal having the first wavelength is transmitted from the fifth port,\n wherein the second apparatus is further arranged to simultaneously transmit, from both the fourth port and the fifth port, the downstream optical signals received at the sixth port, and \n wherein the downstream optical signals include a downstream optical signal having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.8254
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15746610', '10427284', '13876954', '11144949', '14861033']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6616042011923052
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5237531913429855
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6478191002073732
- Mean Citation Score: 208.981932
- Max Citation Score: 285.03165
- Similarity Product: 214.49968645389683

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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