PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051323
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["398", "045000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for asymmetric distribution of mixed content via a network. Current optical fiber-based access network technologies are multiplexed onto the same fiber for delivery via a common Optical Distribution Network (ODN). Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to combining (using optical multiplexing and power splitting) two or more optical user-technologies onto a single Passive Optical Network (PON) while maintaining an independent serving group size and operational independence for each of the combined user-technologies. The disclosed methods and apparatus allow the so-called “outside plant” architecture (i.e., the fiber optic infrastructure from the headend to the customer premises) to be independent of the user-technologies and network architecture that are provided via the outside plant.

Claim (Index 27):
A non-transitory computer-readable apparatus having a storage medium comprising at least one computer program, the at least one program having a plurality of instructions configured to, when executed by a computerized apparatus, cause the computerized apparatus to:\n assign a plurality of subscriber devices of an optical network to a plurality of service groups, each of the plurality of service groups associated with a respective amount of network resources apportioned thereto; associate, based on data representative of one or more network conditions, each of a plurality of first optical splitters to a respective portion of one or more digitally rendered content elements; and transmit the one or more digitally rendered content elements to at least one of the plurality of service groups via a second optical splitter disposed at a different node of the optical network from the plurality of first optical splitters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59756
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15614446', '14733694', '14593867', '15948943', '14936414']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7179475943338391
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5892682292813799
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7050796578285933
- Mean Citation Score: 331.01421
- Max Citation Score: 466.91382
- Similarity Product: 428.622648549571

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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