PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15770446
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["398", "021000"]

Abstract:
The invention is directed to a system and method for troubleshooting in an optical data network that has a laser transmitter/receiver unit that outputs a data signal and an OTDR unit that produces an OTDR probe signal. The data and OTDR probe signals, typically at different wavelengths, are coupled into one end of a trunk fiber which is coupled at its far end to an optical circuit that includes a number of wavelength-selective optical switches and has multiple outputs that are directed to different end users. The optical switches are configurable so as to provide the OTDR probe signal to only one of the optical circuit's outputs while maintaining the data signal at the same output, while also maintaining the data signal, without the OTDR probe signal, at other outputs.

Claim (Index 41):
A method of troubleshooting an optical communications network, comprising:\n directing an optical data transmission signal through a splitter network, the splitter network comprising an input waveguide feeding into a splitter module, a plurality of output waveguides feeding from the splitter module and at least two wavelength-dependent optical switches disposed on paths taken by the optical data transmission signal between the input waveguide and the output waveguides; directing an optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) probe signal toward the optical splitter network; setting states of wavelength-dependent optical switches in the splitter network so as to direct the OTDR probe signal along a selected one of the plurality of output waveguides while permitting the optical data transmission signal to propagate out of all of the output waveguides of the plurality of output waveguides.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13846
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16075259', '14004522', '13818937', '13508006', '13309983']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6804964747986186
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4998006314669578
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6624268904654526
- Mean Citation Score: 222.295876
- Max Citation Score: 226.38823
- Similarity Product: 180.66098710873248

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

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