PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908223
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["398", "085000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus includes a plurality of ingress ports, a wavelength blocker array, a plurality of egress ports, a plurality of degree drop ports, a plurality of degree add ports, and a wavelength selective cross-connect (WSX) array. The wavelength blocker array has plurality of wavelength blocking units, each wavelength blocking unit is coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of ingress ports. The wavelength selective cross-connect (WSX) array includes a plurality of 2×2 independently switched 2×2 wavelength selective cross-connect switches, where the WSX array is coupled to the wavelength blocker array, the plurality of egress ports, the plurality of degree drop ports, and the plurality of degree add ports.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of ingress ports; a wavelength blocker array having a plurality of wavelength blocking units, each wavelength blocking unit coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of ingress ports; a plurality of egress ports; a plurality of degree drop ports; a plurality of degree add ports; and a wavelength selective cross-connect (WSX) array comprising a plurality of 2\u00d72 independently switched 2\u00d72 wavelength selective cross-connect switches, wherein the WSX array is coupled to the wavelength blocker array, the plurality of egress ports, the plurality of degree drop ports, and the plurality of degree add ports.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.15
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14173912', '14879529', '14467578', '12103204', '15881420']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6775863565703119
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.529553685609113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.662783089474192
- Mean Citation Score: 261.640378
- Max Citation Score: 275.07104
- Similarity Product: 202.87228965484616

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

Dataset: test