PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16449618
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["398", "029000"]

Abstract:
A network controller controls optical nodes configured to communicate with each other at multiple line rates using different tuples of [bits/symbol, symbol rate] for each line rate. The network controller determines multiple paths between two optical nodes, selects a desired line rate at which to communicate between the two optical nodes, and accesses a path database that indicates an available optical bandwidth and an available optical signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) along each path. The network controller determines feasible paths among the paths. To do this, the network controller, for each path, searches the different tuples of the desired line rate for a tuple for which a desired optical bandwidth and a desired optical SNR are accommodated by the available optical bandwidth and the available optical SNR of the path, respectively. The network controller programs optical nodes of one of the feasible paths with a tuple found in the searching.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the path database further indicates a respective time latency for each path, and the method further comprises, when the determining one or more feasible paths determines multiple feasible paths, selecting as the one of the feasible paths a feasible path having a minimum latency among the multiple feasible paths.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37681
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16003352', '12732676', '13395747', '14626550', '15263042']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6773605686427379
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5540806739147134
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6650325791699354
- Mean Citation Score: 181.779318
- Max Citation Score: 366.71835
- Similarity Product: 295.30626431141496

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