PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971981
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "242000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network fault locating method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a fault group in an HFC network; collecting a pre-equalization coefficient of at least one cable modem (CM); enabling a reference fault point that is corresponding to the fault group and whose location is known; collecting the pre-equalization coefficient of the at least one CM again; and determining a relative distance between each fault point in the fault group and the reference fault point according to the pre-equalization coefficient collected twice. In the present disclosure, not only each fault point in a fault group including a plurality of fault points can be located, but also a fault group including only a single fault point can be located.

Claim (Index 4):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n a reflection loss of the reference fault point is known; and the method further comprises:\n calculating a fault severity between every two fault points according to the first pre-equalization coefficient set, to obtain a first fault severity set, \n calculating a fault severity between every two fault points in the fault point set according to the second pre-equalization coefficient set, to obtain a second fault severity set, \n determining a fault severity between each fault point and the reference fault point according to the first fault severity set and the second fault severity set, and \n determining a reflection loss of each fault point according to the fault severity between each fault point and the reference fault point and the reflection loss of the reference fault point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05797
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15429491', '15471955', '11110394', '16081410', '11110263']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4995897596553253
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5006033233407268
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4996911160238655
- Mean Citation Score: 166.55818
- Max Citation Score: 226.26315
- Similarity Product: 161.5895534118265

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

Dataset: test