PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011142
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["398", "068000"]

Abstract:
A passive optical network includes a central office providing subscriber signals; a fiber distribution hub including an optical power splitter and a termination field; and a drop terminal. Distribution fibers have first ends coupled to output ports of a drop terminal and second ends coupled to the termination field. A remote unit of a DAS is retrofitted to the network by routing a second feeder cable from a base station to the hub and coupling one the distribution fibers to the second feeder cable. The remote unit is plugged into the corresponding drop terminal port, for example, with a cable arrangement having a sealed wave division multiplexer.

Claim (Index 2):
A cable arrangement comprising:\n a wave division multiplexer disposed between a single optical fiber and multiple optical fibers; a distal end of the single optical fiber is terminated by an optical connector to enable the distal end to be plugged into an empty port at a drop terminal, the wave division multiplexer demultiplexes optical signals carried by the single optical fiber from the drop terminal and routes the demultiplexed signals to the multiple optical fibers; distal ends of the multiple optical fibers are terminated by optical connectors to enable the distal ends to be plugged into ports at a remote unit, the wave division multiplexer also multiplexes optical signals carried by the multiple optical fibers from the remote unit and routes the multiplexed signal to the single optical fiber; the wave division multiplexer is sealed from the outside environment, the wave division multiplexer is overmolded or otherwise enclosed in a protective closure or seal, portions of the single optical fiber and multiple optical fibers also are included within the sealed enclosure; and the optical connector terminating the distal end of the single optical fiber is a hardened optical connector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74242
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14468913', '15252947', '15553441', '13965928', '15616029']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7500356638946559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5637543749938597
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7314075350045763
- Mean Citation Score: 359.804984
- Max Citation Score: 436.68594
- Similarity Product: 337.38701691194774

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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