PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876060
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["398", "001000"]

Abstract:
Optical switch control circuit for optical network protection. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a latching optical switch that routes signals in an optical network. The apparatus also includes a switch control circuit coupled to the latching optical switch. The switch control circuit controls the latching optical switch to selectively operate in a latching mode or in a non-latching mode based on a received command and a network power state. A method is disclosed that includes receiving a command that indicates how optical signals are to be routed by a latching optical switch, and determining a resulting routing state based on a current routing state, the command, and a power state. The method also includes controlling the latching optical switch to operates in the resulting routing state such that the latching optical switch selectively operates in a latching mode or in a non-latching mode.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 2 , further comprising a backup power supply that provides backup power to the switch control circuit and the optical switch, and wherein the backup power maintains power to the switch control circuit and the optical switch during a power failure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67241
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14093966', '14143133', '14790853', '14045877', '15359797']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5834671661389061
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.523793963798437
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5774998459048593
- Mean Citation Score: 154.97931
- Max Citation Score: 173.53912
- Similarity Product: 100.20799908049584

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

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