PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16075259
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["398", "038000"]

Abstract:
A system for monitoring a signal on an optical fiber includes a fiber optic connector having a housing couplable to a receptacle. An optical fiber that transmits a first optical signal has first fiber core at least partially surrounded by a cladding and has a first end terminating proximate the housing. The first optical signal is transmitted along the first fiber core. An optical tap has a first tap waveguide arranged and is configured to receive at least part of the first optical signal as a first tap signal. The first tap waveguide comprises an output port for the first tap signal for directing the tap signal to a detector unit. In other embodiments, a detector unit detects light from the optical signal that is propagating along the fiber cladding. The system is intended to permit a technician to easily and quickly, without having to remove a connector, determine whether an optical signal is propagating along a fiber cable.

Claim (Index 18):
A system as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the optical fiber comprises a second fiber core, a second optical signal being transmitted along the second fiber core, and the optical tap further comprises a second tap waveguide arranged and configured to receive at least part of the second optical signal as a second tap signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34722
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12626679', '12652037', '11865731', '11716414', '15889810']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7241275040827398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4991570067382782
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7016304543482936
- Mean Citation Score: 206.383194
- Max Citation Score: 215.00479
- Similarity Product: 167.82829461043596

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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