PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004388
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
A method and system connects multiple cores within one fiber, e.g., a multi-core fiber (MCF), to multiple fibers with single-cores. The single-core fibers can then be terminated by traditional envelopes, such as a single core LC envelope. A connector holds the single-core fibers into a pattern that matches a pattern of all, or a sub group, of the individual cores of the MCF. The single-core fibers may all be terminated to individual connectors to form a fanout or breakout cable. Alternatively, the single-core fibers may extend to another connector wherein the single-core fibers are regrouped into a pattern to mate with the cores of another MCF, hence forming a jumper. One or more of the single core fibers may be terminated along the length of the jumper to form a jumper with one or more tap accesses.

Claim (Index 15):
The connector system of  claim 14 , further comprising:\n a third ferrule having a third end surface; a third holder formed in said third ferrule and formed as a single opening or groove extending up to said third end surface; a first multi-core optical fiber including a plurality of cores arranged in a third given pattern; said first multi-core optical fiber being mounted in said third holder with a first end of said first multi-core optical fiber being located at said third end surface of said third ferrule, wherein when said third ferrule is mated to said first ferrule, each one of said first ends of said plurality of single-core optical fibers is aligned with a respective one of said cores of said first multi-core optical fiber; a fourth ferrule having a fourth end surface; a fourth holder formed in said fourth ferrule and formed as a single opening or groove extending up to said fourth end surface; and a second multi-core optical fiber including a plurality of cores arranged in a fourth given pattern; said second multi-core optical fiber being mounted in said fourth holder with a first end of said second multi-core optical fiber being located at said fourth end surface of said fourth ferrule, wherein when said fourth ferrule is mated to said second ferrule, each one of said second ends of said plurality of single-core optical fibers is aligned with a respective one of said cores of said second multi-core optical fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14170781', '15248264', '14149949', '14172996', '13468495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8554044053824729
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.584584692353381
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8283224340795636
- Mean Citation Score: 410.598826
- Max Citation Score: 568.66266
- Similarity Product: 400.3078355537831

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

Dataset: test