PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881420
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "048000"]

Abstract:
An optical add/drop system supporting a colorless, directionless, and contentionless (CDC) architecture includes a Contentionless Wavelength Selective Switch (CWSS)-based optical add/drop device including N local add/drop ports and M degree ports; and a channel pre-combiner including a common port connected to a first port of the N local add/drop ports and at least two local add/drop ports coupled to the common port. The CWSS-based optical add/drop device can include an M-array of 1×N Wavelength Selective Switches (WSSs) and an N-array of M×1 switches. The channel pre-combiner can be a passive device which passively combines the at least two local add ports and splits the at least two local drop ports. The channel pre-combiner can also include amplifiers on the common port in both an add direction and a drop direction.

Claim (Index 10):
The optical add/drop system of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a second channel pre-combiner including a common port connected to a second port of the N local add/drop ports and at least two local add/drop ports coupled to the common port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05714
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15162954', '15849097', '12103204', '14021999', '14467578']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7300889924703727
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5548169440563254
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.712561787628968
- Mean Citation Score: 355.496296
- Max Citation Score: 395.43814
- Similarity Product: 283.766239522649

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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