PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971981
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "242000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network fault locating method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a fault group in an HFC network; collecting a pre-equalization coefficient of at least one cable modem (CM); enabling a reference fault point that is corresponding to the fault group and whose location is known; collecting the pre-equalization coefficient of the at least one CM again; and determining a relative distance between each fault point in the fault group and the reference fault point according to the pre-equalization coefficient collected twice. In the present disclosure, not only each fault point in a fault group including a plurality of fault points can be located, but also a fault group including only a single fault point can be located.

Claim (Index 6):
The method according to  claim 4 , wherein determining a reflection loss of each fault point according to the fault severity between each fault point and the reference fault point and the reflection loss of the reference fault point comprises:\n calculating, for each of the fault points, the reflection loss of the fault point according to the fault severity between the fault point and the reference fault point and the reflection loss of the reference fault point, wherein the reflection loss of the fault point is an absolute difference obtained by subtracting the reflection loss of the reference fault point from the fault severity between the fault point and the reference fault point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05797
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15429491', '15471955', '11110394', '16081410', '11110263']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4976710241660941
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5086739266152118
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4987713144110059
- Mean Citation Score: 166.55818
- Max Citation Score: 226.26315
- Similarity Product: 145.44982284073234

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

Dataset: test