PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16228214
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["398", "010000"]

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and optical power controllers are disclosed. Various problems caused by the use of a single L0 power controller in the prior art are addressed by using first and second L0 power controllers with the first L0 power controller managing first optical components with the optical network, and the second L0 power controller managing second optical components within the optical network.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising\n a reconfigurable optical network having a path for providing L0 optical communication services from a first terminal optics to a second terminal optics via a plurality of first optical components, an external network to network interface, and a plurality of second optical components, the external network to network interface being an optical communication link connecting at least one of the first optical components to at least one of the second optical components, the first terminal optics, the second terminal optics, the first optical components, the second optical components, and the external network to network interface having a target power tool, and a monitoring tool; a first L0 power controller communicating with the target power tool and the monitoring tool of the first optical components to maintain first optical power levels of the first optical components at first target power levels; and a second L0 power controller communicating with the target power tool and the monitoring tool of the second optical components to maintain second optical power levels of the second optical components at second target power levels, wherein first circuitry of the first L0 power controller communicates with second circuitry of the second L0 power controller to exchange power control information to enable the L0 optical communication services between the first terminal optics and the second terminal optics.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0303
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14675002', '13452413', '14145756', '14144843', '15482159']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6864411993706473
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5311101413610355
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6709080935696861
- Mean Citation Score: 257.719936
- Max Citation Score: 313.29175
- Similarity Product: 240.0892189076393

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

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