PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956121
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "057000"]

Abstract:
A multi-layer network planning system can determine a set of regenerator sites (“RSs”) that have been found to cover all paths among a set of nodes of an optical layer of a multi-layer network and can determine a set of candidate RSs in the optical layer for use by the links between a set of nodes of an upper layer, wherein each RS can be selected as a candidate RS for the links. The system can determine a binary path matrix for the links between the set of nodes of the upper layer. The system can determine a min-cost matrix that includes a plurality of min-cost paths. The system can determine a best RS from the set of candidate RSs and can move the best RS from the set of candidate RSs into the set of RSs for the links. The system can then update the binary path matrix.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n determining, by a multi-layer network planning system comprising a processor executing instructions to implement a greedy constrained-routing regenerator location problem algorithm, in consideration of an optical layer of a multi-layer network and an upper layer of the multi-layer network that utilizes the optical layer to create links between a first set of nodes of the upper layer, a set of regenerator sites that have previously been found to cover at least a portion of paths among a second set of nodes of the optical layer of the multi-layer network; determining, by the multi-layer network planning system, a set of candidate regenerator sites in the optical layer of the multi-layer network for use by the links between the first set of nodes of the upper layer, wherein each regenerator site of the optical layer can be selected as a candidate regenerator site for the links; determining, by the multi-layer network planning system, a binary path matrix for the links between the first set of nodes of the upper layer; determining, by the multi-layer network planning system, a best regenerator site from the set of candidate regenerator sites; moving, by the multi-layer network planning system, the best regenerator site from the set of candidate regenerator sites into the set of regenerator sites for the links; and updating, by the multi-layer network planning system, the binary path matrix.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60656
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12045933', '12214591', '09909265', '14457201', '13119520']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6496182815579455
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5174396637790737
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6364004197800583
- Mean Citation Score: 244.949484
- Max Citation Score: 256.1646
- Similarity Product: 202.38764419248105

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

Dataset: test