PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018988
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
Fiber optic connectors and connectorized fiber optic cables include connector housings having locking portions defined on the connector housing that allow the connector housing to be selectively coupled to a corresponding push-button securing member of a multiport assembly. Methods for selectively connecting a fiber optic connector to, and disconnecting the fiber optic connector from the multiport assemblies allow for connector housings to be forcibly and nondestructively removed from the multiport assembly.

Claim (Index 25):
A method for connecting a fiber optic connector to a multiport assembly, the method comprising:\n providing a fiber optic connector comprising a ferrule and a connector housing, wherein the ferrule comprises an optical fiber bore and the connector housing comprises\n a ferrule retaining portion structurally configured to engage and retain the ferrule at a front portion of the connector housing, \n a longitudinal axis extending from a leading edge plane of the front portion of the connector housing, through the ferrule retaining portion to a rear portion of the connector housing, \n a nominal housing portion defined on an outer surface of the connector housing, \n a rotationally discrete keying portion defined on the outer surface of the connector housing, and \n a rotationally discrete locking portion defined on the outer surface of the connector housing, wherein the nominal housing portion is interrupted by the rotationally discrete keying portion and the locking portion, the rotationally discrete keying portion comprises an unobstructed line of sight with the leading edge plane of the connector housing along an advancing direction of the fiber optic connector, the rotationally discrete keying portion comprising at least one rotationally discrete contact surface structurally configured to inhibit rotation of the connector housing about the longitudinal axis when engaged with a complementary keying portion of an optical connector port, the locking portion comprises a rearwardly facing port engagement face and a locking portion recess that is positioned rearward of the port engagement face, the locking portion recess is obstructed from the leading edge plane of the connector housing along the advancing direction of the fiber optic connector by the port engagement face, and the port engagement face of the locking portion is structurally configured to inhibit axial movement of the connector housing along a retracting direction of the fiber optic connector when engaged with a complementary locking portion of an optical connector port; \n advancing the fiber optic connector along the advancing direction into an optical connector port of a multiport assembly comprising a plurality of optical adapters, the optical adapters structurally configured to receive, align, and optically couple the fiber optic connector with a dissimilar optical connector within the multiport assembly; aligning the rotationally discrete keying portion of the connector housing with a complementary rotationally discrete keying portion associated with the optical connector port to permit the rotationally discrete locking portion of the connector housing to engage a rotationally discrete locking portion of a push-button securing member associated with the optical connector port; and engaging the rotationally discrete locking portion of the connector housing with the rotationally discrete locking portion of the push-button securing member associated with the optical connector port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7619
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16018997', '16018918', '16019008', '16015588', '14914117']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8632128990134569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6017883253748577
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.837070441649597
- Mean Citation Score: 436.926918
- Max Citation Score: 561.7171599999998
- Similarity Product: 529.2357485485791

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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