PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "017000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer, including: an input component, an output component, a beamsplitter, a first switch array, a wavelength dispersion system, a redirection system, and a second switch array. The input component includes M+P input ports, the output component includes N output ports, the beamsplitter is configured to: receive M input beams from M input ports, and split each of the M input beams into at least N parts, to obtain at least M×N beams; the first switch array includes at least P switch units; and the second switch array includes N rows of switch units. The first switch array, the beamsplitter, the wavelength dispersion system, the redirection system, and the second switch array are arranged so that P optical add beams and sub-beams of M×N beams in the at least M×N beams can be routed to the N output ports.

Claim (Index 1):
A reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer, comprising:\n an input component comprising M+P input ports, wherein M input ports are used for dimensional input, P input ports are used for wavelength adding, and M and P are integers greater than or equal to 1; an output component comprising N output ports, wherein the N output ports are used for dimensional output, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; a first switch array comprising at least P switch units, wherein each of the P input ports is corresponding to at least one of the at least P switch units, and the at least P switch units are configured to: receive P input beams from the P input ports, and route the P input beams; a beamsplitter, configured to: receive M input beams from the M input ports, and split each of the M input beams into at least N parts, to obtain at least M\u00d7N beams; a wavelength dispersion system, configured to: receive the P input beams from the first switch array, and disperse the P input beams, to obtain sub-beams of the P input beams, and further configured to: receive the at least M\u00d7N beams from the beamsplitter, and disperse the at least M\u00d7N beams, to obtain sub-beams of the at least M\u00d7N beams; a second switch array comprising N rows of switch units, wherein each row of switch units comprise K switch units, the K switch units are in a one-to-one correspondence with K wavelengths, the K switch units are separately configured to route sub-beams of respective wavelengths of the K switch units, and K is an integer greater than 1; and a redirection system, configured to: receive the sub-beams of the P input beams from the wavelength dispersion system, and redirect the sub-beams of the P input beams to the N rows of switch units in the second switch array, wherein the N rows of switch units route the sub-beams of the P input beams to the N output ports, and the first switch array, the second switch array, the wavelength dispersion system, and the redirection system are arranged so that the sub-beams of the P input beams can be routed to the N output ports, wherein the redirection system is further configured to: receive sub-beams of M\u00d7N beams in the at least M\u00d7N beams from the wavelength dispersion system, and redirect the sub-beams of the M\u00d7N beams to the N rows of switch units in the second switch array, wherein the N rows of switch units route the sub-beams of the M\u00d7N beams to the N output ports, and the beamsplitter, the second switch array, the wavelength dispersion system, and the redirection system are arranged so that the sub-beams of the M\u00d7N beams can be routed to the N output ports.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69841
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15866058', '14761202', '14404950', '15881420', '14257846']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8324200274090859
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5154895194282983
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8007269766110072
- Mean Citation Score: 289.076652
- Max Citation Score: 318.02493
- Similarity Product: 240.82129194099423

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

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