PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992458
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["398", "002000"]

Abstract:
An optical communications apparatus includes a branching unit and a switching module. The branching unit is configured to be connected to first, second, and third optical cables each including an optical fiber. The branching unit includes a branch optical path configured to route a fixed pre-determined range of wavelengths that are input to the branching unit from the optical fiber of the first cable to the optical fiber of the third cable. The switching module includes at least one optical switch having a bypass configuration and a branch connecting configuration. In the bypass configuration, a connection via the branch optical path to a distal portion of the third cable is bypassed. In the branch connecting configuration, the branch optical path is enabled so that the pre-determined range of wavelengths that are input to the branching unit are routed to the optical fiber of the distal portion of the third cable.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the branch optical path comprises a wavelength-drop arrangement in which a wavelength-selective filter is configured to route the fixed pre-determined range of signal wavelengths that are input to the branching unit by the optical fiber of the first optical cable to the optical fiber of the third optical cable.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 49.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75862
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12779409', '15272041', '10687544', '10971537', '10321611']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.669640665927075
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5155063880420526
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6542272381385729
- Mean Citation Score: 225.157064
- Max Citation Score: 234.8165
- Similarity Product: 179.39080613702538

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