PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16068746
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "135000"]

Abstract:
Examples of optical splitter systems, methods and modules enable the stacking and interconnecting of one or more optical splitter modules. One example of a splitter module has a housing and one or more connection members for connecting to adjacent instances of like splitter modules. The housing includes a plurality of cable ports providing access to an optical splitter storage area. Each connection member includes a tab and a slot, the tab configured to slidingly engage with the slot of an adjacent connection member. Sliding engagement of adjacent instances of splitter modules can form a stack of splitter modules along a stacking axis. In some cases a splitter module includes a latching mechanism to removably engage an adjacent splitter module. The latching mechanism can restrict sliding engagement and thus decoupling of the adjacent splitter modules.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for arranging optical splitter modules, comprising:\n positioning a first optical splitter module next to a second optical splitter module, each of the first and second optical splitter modules comprising\n an enclosure housing an optical splitter assembly, \n a plurality of connection members comprising a linear arrangement of first side connection members located along a first side of the enclosure and a linear arrangement of second side connection members located along a second side of the enclosure, and \n a plurality of cable ports providing access to the optical splitter assembly for a plurality of optical fiber cables; and \n slidingly engaging the first optical splitter module with the second optical splitter module, the slidingly engaging comprising\n inserting a tab on each connection member on the first optical splitter module into a slot of each connection member on the second optical splitter module, and \n sliding each tab within each respect slot, the sliding occurring parallel to the linear arrangements of first side and second side connection members, thereby sliding the first and second optical splitter modules together into a stacked arrangement; and \n latching the first optical splitter module to the second optical splitter module to selectively prevent the optical splitter modules from sliding apart, the latching comprising\n engaging a single latch tab on the first optical splitter module with a single strike tab on the second optical splitter module.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10799328', '11213772', '11584068', '11985846', '14793162']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7857148907035076
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4775560738772595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7548990090208829
- Mean Citation Score: 188.804816
- Max Citation Score: 193.88846
- Similarity Product: 154.2265708068001

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

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