PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992541
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["398", "025000"]

Abstract:
A method for determining the latency or length of an optical path of a fiber-optic transmission link includes: starting a measurement cycle at a first point in time; stopping the measurement cycle at a second point in time after having received a last measurement bit or bit pattern at the first end; determining, at the first end, the total round-trip delay of the optical path by evaluating a time information available at the first end; and calculating the length of the optical path by using the total round-trip delay and the group velocity characterizing the signal propagation along the optical path.

Claim (Index 17):
An optical transmission network comprising\n (a) a plurality of network nodes which are connected by optical paths in such a way that two or more signal transmission routes using different combinations of optical paths can be used in order to establish a unidirectional or bidirectional communication between a selected pair of network nodes and (b) a routing controller which is configured determine an appropriate signal transmission route between the selected pair of network nodes and to control the network nodes in such a way that the signal transmission route determined is established between the selected pair of network nodes, (c) wherein the network nodes are configured to determine latencies of the optical paths between two neighboring network nodes according to the method of  claim 1 , (d) wherein the network nodes are configured to supply the latencies of the optical paths to the routing controller, and (e) wherein the routing controller is configured to determine the route for connecting the selected pair of network nodes in such a way that the sum of the latencies of the optical paths comprised by the route does not exceed a predetermined threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14928269', '11781912', '13879147', '10107332', '14874873']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6733180164128643
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5018937588354561
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6561755906551234
- Mean Citation Score: 213.11673
- Max Citation Score: 236.31148
- Similarity Product: 192.18907338235616

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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