PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16083838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["385", "089000"]

Abstract:
A fiber optic termination sealingly connects to a cable which includes a casing having a cable tube and optical fibers. The termination includes a sealed housing, a manifold, a connector and termination tubes. The housing has an inlet to sealably receive the cable. The fibers extend from an end of the cable into a sealed chamber of the housing. The manifold is positionable in the housing, and has an inlet to receive the fibers and sealed passages shaped to distribute the fibers therethrough the connector includes contacts communicatively connectable to equipment and the fibers. The termination tubes are positionable within the chamber of housing, and have an entry end sealingly connectable to an end of the cable tube and a contact end sealingly connectable to the contacts. The manifold sealingly connectable to the termination tubes to define a sealed channel the optical fibers are disposable through the sealed channel whereby the housing and the termination tubes define a multi-layer protective environment for sealingly encasing the optical fibers.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of communicating between equipment via a cable, the cable comprising a casing having at least one cable tube therethrough, the at least one cable tube having optical fibers extending therethrough, the method comprising:\n providing a fiber optic termination comprising a sealed housing, at least one manifold, termination tubes, and optical contacts; sealingly receiving an end of the cable through an inlet of the sealed housing; removing a cover of the optical fibers at the inlet and passing the optical fibers from the cable and into the inlet of the sealed housing; passing the optical fibers through termination tubes in the sealed housing and into a manifold inlet of the manifold; distributing the optical fibers from the manifold inlet and through paths extending from the inlet to a plurality of outlets of the manifold; passing the optical fibers from each of the plurality of outlets, through termination tubes, and to the contacts; communicatively connecting the optical fibers from each of the outlets to a corresponding one of the contacts; sealingly encasing the optical fibers in the termination tubes and sealingly connecting portions of the termination tubes with at least one of the cable tube, the manifold, and the optical contacts; communicatively connecting the optical contacts to the equipment; and passing signals between the equipment and the cable via the optical fibers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 83.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.8254
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14347099', '11655707', '12794067', '11254899', '14331873']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8366510396280729
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4905864374408029
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8020445794093459
- Mean Citation Score: 227.883894
- Max Citation Score: 244.28719
- Similarity Product: 194.71428819494488

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

Dataset: test