PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876840
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "392000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the disclosure provide application layer, Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, and physical (PHY) layer functionality by discrete devices, to form a distributed MAC/PHY architecture for communications networks. An application layer (layer-3) device can communicate with a MAC layer (layer-2) device. The layer-2 device may switch IP layer (layer-3) information to MAC layer information. Further the layer-2 device can use addressing information determined or received from the layer-3 device to choose a particular PHY layer (layer-1) device. The layer-2 device can instruct the layer-1 device, to modulate information on one or more frequencies and/or wavelengths over a given physical medium. In an embodiment, the various communications between the devices can occur using a downstream external PHY interface (DEPI) protocol and an upstream external PHY interface (UEPI) protocol. In an embodiment, the monitoring of the devices can be performed using a management plane generic control plane (GCP) protocol.

Claim (Index 12):
Non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:\n modulating and demodulating signals, by the one or more processors on a first device, for transmission over a network, the one or more processors of the first device being in communication with one or more processors of a second device; identifying, by the one or more processors of the first device, first data packets received from the second device using a first protocol, wherein the first data packets include instructions that enable the one or more processors of the first device to modulate signals according to first parameters, the instructions further comprising addressing information specifying a destination for the signals; and sending, by the one or more processors of the first device, second data packets to the second device using a second protocol.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0814
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14950102', '15365751', '13435926', '14314397', '14600470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4995001065335255
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4527700422398856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4948271001041616
- Mean Citation Score: 107.5451462
- Max Citation Score: 111.09428
- Similarity Product: 83.04347119500162

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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