PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16063053
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["398", "079000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an optical network element ( 30, 34 ) comprising a wavelength selective switch, WSS, ( 432, 136 ) with one or more input ports, a working output port ( 38 ) and a separate protecting output port ( 40 ), the WSS ( 432 ) being configurable to a working configuration, in which one or more channels are routed from said one or more input ports to the working output port ( 38 ), and being configurable to a protecting configuration, in which said one or more channels or a subset thereof are routed from said one or more input ports to the protecting output port ( 40 ), or with a working input port ( 42 ) and a protecting input port ( 44 ) and with one or more output ports, the WSS ( 136 ) being configurable to a working configuration, in which one or more channels are routed from the working input ( 42 ) port to the one or more output ports, and being configurable to a protecting configuration, in which one or more channels are routed from the protecting input port ( 44 ) to the one or more output ports, a computer readable medium including program code defining configuration information, a control unit configured to control the WSS ( 432, 136 ) to adopt the working configuration or the protecting configuration based on the predefined configuration information.

Claim (Index 2):
Optical network for transmitting wavelength division mulitplexing (WDM) signals, the optical network comprising\n a first node with a first wavelength selective switch, WSS, a second node with a second WSS, wherein the first WSS and the second WSS are connected via a working path and via a protecting path,\n wherein the working path is connected to a working output port of the first WSS and the protecting path is connected to a separate protecting output port of the first WSS, the first WSS being configured to broadcast one or more channels or a subset thereof of one or more WDM signals from one or more input ports of the first WSS to both the working output port and the protecting output port, or \n wherein the working path is connected to a working output port of the first WSS and the protecting path is connected to a separate protecting output port of the first WSS, the first WSS being configurable to a working configuration, in which one or more channels are routed from one or more input ports of the first WSS to the working output port of the first WSS, and being configurable to a protecting configuration, in which said one or more channels or a subset thereof are routed from said one or more input ports of the first WSS to the protecting output port of the first WSS, the optical network further comprising \n a computer readable medium including program code defining configuration information, \n a control unit configured to control the first WSS to adopt the working configuration or the protecting configuration based on the predefined configuration information \n and/or\n wherein the working path is connected to a working input port of the second WSS and the protecting path is connected to a separate protecting input port of the second WSS, the second WSS being configurable to a working configuration, in which one or more channels are routed from the working input port to one or more output ports of the second WSS, and being configurable to a protecting configuration, in which said one or more channels or a subset thereof are routed from the protecting input port to the said one or more output ports of the second WSS, the optical network further comprising \n a computer readable medium including program code defining configuration information, \n a control unit configured to control the second WSS to adopt the working configuration or the protecting configuration based on the predefined configuration information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.83582
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14608228', '12714600', '14173912', '14879529', '15090642']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7013441758152151
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.522659452939205
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6834757035276141
- Mean Citation Score: 274.597902
- Max Citation Score: 297.69833
- Similarity Product: 243.1478761421746

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

Dataset: test