PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16068746
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "135000"]

Abstract:
Examples of optical splitter systems, methods and modules enable the stacking and interconnecting of one or more optical splitter modules. One example of a splitter module has a housing and one or more connection members for connecting to adjacent instances of like splitter modules. The housing includes a plurality of cable ports providing access to an optical splitter storage area. Each connection member includes a tab and a slot, the tab configured to slidingly engage with the slot of an adjacent connection member. Sliding engagement of adjacent instances of splitter modules can form a stack of splitter modules along a stacking axis. In some cases a splitter module includes a latching mechanism to removably engage an adjacent splitter module. The latching mechanism can restrict sliding engagement and thus decoupling of the adjacent splitter modules.

Claim (Index 1):
A cable splitter module, comprising:\n a housing having a length extending along a longitudinal axis of the housing, a width extending transverse to the longitudinal axis along a width axis, and a stacking axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and to the width axis, the housing comprising\n an optical splitter storage area, \n a plurality of cable ports providing access to the optical splitter storage area for a plurality of optical fiber cables, \n a first end wall at a first end of the housing, \n a second end wall at a second end of the housing opposite the first end of the housing, \n a first side wall at a first side of the housing, and \n a second side wall at a second side of the housing opposite the first side of the housing; and \n a connection member at the first side of the housing, the connection member comprising\n a rigid wall member having a first end and a second end, the second end comprising a tab projecting from the wall member, \n and a slot extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing; \n wherein the connection member is configured to connect to an adjacent instance of the connection member on an adjacent cable splitter module; wherein the tab of the connection member is configured to slidingly engage with the slot of the adjacent connection member in a first connection configuration that restricts relative movement of the cable splitter module and the adjacent cable splitter module along the stacking axis; and wherein the slot of the connection member is configured to slidingly engage with the tab of the adjacent connection member in a second connection configuration that restricts relative movement of the cable splitter module and the adjacent cable splitter module along the stacking axis; whereby the cable splitter module is connectable to the adjacent instance of the cable splitter module to form a stack of connected cable splitter modules along the stacking axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10799328', '11213772', '11584068', '11985846', '14793162']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7872577115730642
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4685219748837097
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7553841379041288
- Mean Citation Score: 188.804816
- Max Citation Score: 193.88846
- Similarity Product: 166.92849943872932

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test