PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901872
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["356", "073100"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of an apparatus for measuring a length of an optical fiber are provided. In one embodiment, a method of testing an optical fiber comprises measuring a length of the optical fiber based on a time of flight of an optical pulse launched through the optical fiber from a first optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) system and received by a second OTDR system; and controlling the first and the second OTDR systems to characterize the optical fiber based on the measured length of the optical fiber. In this way, defects and other physical characteristics of an optical fiber may be accurately determined.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 3 , wherein the power threshold is equal to half of a maximum power of the optical pulse.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14391700', '13622481', '14845351', '13584531', '13309983']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.715582221564102
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.493926902214392
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6934166896291311
- Mean Citation Score: 184.90782
- Max Citation Score: 189.36269
- Similarity Product: 120.53317862329064

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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