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 13):
The non-transitory computer-readable media of  claim 12 , further comprising:\n controlling and monitoring, by one or more processors of the first device in communication with the one or more processors of the second device, routing functions associated with the network.

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): 0.4936580673585593
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4738163183601387
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4916738924587173
- Mean Citation Score: 107.5451462
- Max Citation Score: 111.09428
- Similarity Product: 71.4402511384654

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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