PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15991830
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["398", "045000"]

Abstract:
A data center network system and a signal transmission system, where the signal transmission system includes one hub device, at least two switches, multiple colored optical modules, at least two multiplexers/demultiplexers, and at least two servers. The hub device, the at least two switches, the multiple colored optical modules, the at least two multiplexers/demultiplexers, and the at least two servers form a star network topology structure.

Claim (Index 7):
A signal transmission system, comprising at least two star network topology structures, and each star network topology structure comprising:\n a hub device, a communication coupling being between hub devices in the at least two star network topology structures; at least two switches coupled to the hub device; a plurality of colored optical circuits, communication couplings being among different input/output ports of each switch and different ones of the colored optical circuits; at least two multiplexers/demultiplexers, communication couplings being among the different ones of the colored optical circuits having the communication couplings to the different input/output ports of each switch and one of the multiplexers/demultiplexers, different ones of the switches being communicatively coupled to different ones of the multiplexers/demultiplexers using the colored optical circuits, the at least two switches and the hub device forming a star network topology structure using the at least two multiplexers/demultiplexers, and the hub device being separately communicatively coupled to the different ones of the multiplexers/demultiplexers using different ports; and at least two servers, a communication coupling being between at least one of the at least two switches and at least one server of the at least two servers, between any two of the star network topology structures, a switch in one of the at least two star network topology structures being configured to:\n receive at least two electrical signals; and \n separately process each of the at least two electrical signals according to the following processing manner for a first electrical signal:\n output the first electrical signal using an input/output port corresponding to a destination address indicating a destination server carried in the first electrical signal, the input/output port corresponding to the destination address comprising an input/output port corresponding to a destination switch communicatively coupled to the destination server, the destination server comprising a server in the other star network topology structure, the destination switch being communicatively coupled to the destination server, and the at least two electrical signals comprising any one or a combination of electrical signals from a server having a communication coupling to the switch, electrical signals from another switch belonging to a star network topology structure same as that of the switch, or electrical signals from a switch belonging to a star network topology structure different from that of the switch, \n \n a colored optical circuit being configured to:\n receive an electrical signal from an input/output port of a switch having a communication coupling to the colored optical circuit; and \n convert the received electrical signal into an optical signal with a specific wavelength, optical signals obtained through conversion by different colored optical circuits having communication couplings to different input/output ports of a switch have different wavelengths, \n a multiplexer/demultiplexer being configured to:\n receive a plurality of first optical signals from each of a plurality of colored optical circuits having communication couplings to the multiplexer/demultiplexer; and \n perform wavelength division multiplexing on the first optical signals to form a first combined signal, \n the hub device being configured to:\n receive a combined signal from a multiplexer/demultiplexer in a star network topology structure same as that of the hub device, and a combined signal from a hub device in a star network topology structure different from that of the hub device; \n demultiplex the combined signal to obtain a plurality of second optical signals; \n send each of the second optical signals to a port corresponding to a destination switch of a corresponding second optical signal; \n output each second optical signal from the corresponding port; and \n perform the wavelength division multiplexing on second optical signals output from a same port to form a second combined signal, a destination switch of at least one of the obtained second optical signals comprises in another star network topology structure, and an optical signal of the destination switch in the other star network topology structure being output using a port of the hub device, and transmitted to another hub device, \n the multiplexer/demultiplexer being further configured to:\n receive a combined signal from a hub device having a communication coupling to the multiplexer/demultiplexer; \n demultiplex the received combined signal to obtain a plurality of third optical signals; and \n separately input the third optical signals to colored optical circuits corresponding to wavelengths of the third optical signals; \n the colored optical circuit being further configured to:\n receive a third optical signal from the multiplexer/demultiplexer having a communication coupling to the colored optical circuit; \n convert the third optical signal into another electrical signal; and \n output the other electrical signal to the input/output port of the switch having the communication coupling to the colored optical circuit, and \n the switch being further configured to forward the other electrical signal received from the colored optical circuit having the communication coupling to the switch to a destination server of the other electrical signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40625
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10390880', '14694776', '10522831', '11152926', '10126983']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6694187426561654
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4904202584392913
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6515188942344781
- Mean Citation Score: 200.30903
- Max Citation Score: 204.61191
- Similarity Product: 166.64763882749318

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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