PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041113
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["398", "005000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed, including an optical switching system comprising an upstream optical signal detector between a first node and a second node configured to detect optical signals from the second node and to switch data traffic from a working path to a protecting path when optical signals from the second node are indicative of a failure in the working path; wherein the first node is configured to transmit data traffic in first optical signals with wavelengths in channels in a first band and receive the data traffic in second optical signals with wavelengths in channels in a second band from the second node; and one or more optical filter, between the second node and the upstream optical signal detector, configured to block signals with wavelengths in the first band that are reflected because of a break in the path between the optical filter and the second node.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical switching system, comprising:\n one or more upstream optical signal detector between a first node and a second node configured to detect optical signals from the second node and to activate the switching of data traffic from a working path, that carries bidirectional data traffic between the first node and the second node in an optical transmission system when there is no failure in the working path, to a protecting path that carries the bidirectional data traffic between the first node and the second node when there is a failure in the working path, when optical signals from the second node are indicative of a failure in the working path by being one or more of (1) below a predetermined level of power and (2) not detected; wherein the first node is configured to transmit data traffic in first optical signals with wavelengths in channels in a first band and receive the data traffic in second optical signals with wavelengths in channels in a second band, and the second node is designed to transmit the data traffic in the second optical signals with wavelengths in channels in the second band and receive the data traffic in the first optical signals with wavelengths in channels in the first band; and one or more optical filter between the second node and the upstream optical signal detector, the optical filter configured to block signals with wavelengths in channels in the first band that are reflected because of a break in the working path between the optical filter and the second node.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12872985', '14675002', '14145756', '14145575', '13310233']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6803788587871906
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5087820871582798
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6632191816242995
- Mean Citation Score: 229.450394
- Max Citation Score: 246.00696
- Similarity Product: 190.83615553994176

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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