PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756134
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
A fiber optic cable with a connector for a rugged environment, including a connector assembly, a fiber optic cable entering a back side of the connector assembly, wherein the fiber optic entering the back side of the connector assembly is sealed to the back side of the connector, a transceiver housed in the connector assembly, wherein the fiber optic cable is attached to the transceiver, a power converter packaged in the connector assembly, wherein the power converter is electrically connected to the transceiver, and an electrical connection electrically connected on a first side to an electrical signal contact in the transceiver and on a second side to a face-side electric contact of the connector assembly. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

Claim (Index 49):
A method of implementing a connector assembly for communicating data signals in a rugged environment comprising:\n configuring the connector assembly with a waterproofing connector gasket and one or more electrical contacts that are exposed, through the connector gasket, on a front side of the first connector assembly; configuring an electro-optical transceiver, housed in the connector assembly, to perform at least one of transforming a first electrical signal, from the one or more electrical contacts, to a first optical signal on a fiber optic cable, and transforming a second optical signal on the fiber optic cable to a second electrical signal on the one or more electrical contacts; and, configuring the first connector assembly to mate a second connector assembly, the mating of the two connector assemblies pushing out moisture to create one or more electrical connections between the one or more electrical contacts and one or more respective second connector electrical contacts of the second connector assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69388
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12625387', '11836519', '12900921', '13870448', '12367677']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8105417597198517
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4780334067658901
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7772909244244555
- Mean Citation Score: 201.488416
- Max Citation Score: 210.45883
- Similarity Product: 165.00418418402612

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

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