PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010191
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "127000"]

Abstract:
A reconfigurable free-space optical inter-rack network includes a plurality of server racks, each including at least one switch mounted on a top thereof, where each top mounted switch includes a plurality of free-space-optic link connector, each with a free-space optical connection to a free-space-optic link connector on another top-mounted switch, a single ceiling mirror above the plurality of server racks that substantially covers the plurality of server racks, wherein the single ceiling mirror redirects optical connections between pairs of free-space-optic link connectors to provide a clear lines-of-sight between each pair of connected free-space-optic link connectors, and a controller that preconfigures a free-space optical network connecting the plurality of server racks by establishing connections between pairs of free-space-optic link connectors, and that reconfigures connections between pairs of free-space-optic link connectors in response to network traffic demands and events.

Claim (Index 11):
The network of  claim 9 , wherein the controller preconfigures an orientation of each GM by creating a complete simple graph over the plurality of server racks and assigning as many links as possible that connect pairs of top-mounted racks, wherein a number of assigned links is less than or equal to a maximum possible number of links,\n partitioning the plurality of server racks into disjoint blocks, wherein each block of server racks is co-located and sufficiently small to be covered by an appropriately oriented GM on any top-mounted switch in the data center, creating a random block-level matching, for each edge (B 1 , B 2 ) in a matching, orienting a GM on each rack of block B 1  towards a GM on a rack of block B 2 , wherein each GM selected for orientation minimizes a sum of distances between reflection points of candidate links in a same matching, wherein a reflection point for a candidate link connecting two top mounted switches a and b is the point p on a ceiling wherein a, b, and p are on the same vertical plane, and p is equidistant from a and b, and covering the reflection points on the ceiling with a number of overhead mirrors using a greedy approach wherein the minors are shaped as rectangles, a number of rectangles can be chosen of order p/A, wherein p is a number of uncovered reflection points covered by a rectangle under consideration and A is an area of the rectangle, wherein mirrors have an appropriate minimum size based on the density of the points to cover.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26562
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14934863', '10017785', '10289662', '14057133', '14869177']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6751082317026923
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5980106680750282
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6673984753399259
- Mean Citation Score: 235.12282400000004
- Max Citation Score: 526.5748
- Similarity Product: 385.19550793795577

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

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