PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992541
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["398", "025000"]

Abstract:
A method for determining the latency or length of an optical path of a fiber-optic transmission link includes: starting a measurement cycle at a first point in time; stopping the measurement cycle at a second point in time after having received a last measurement bit or bit pattern at the first end; determining, at the first end, the total round-trip delay of the optical path by evaluating a time information available at the first end; and calculating the length of the optical path by using the total round-trip delay and the group velocity characterizing the signal propagation along the optical path.

Claim (Index 9):
The method according to  claim 8 , wherein each measurement bit or bit pattern is comprised in a respective frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14928269', '11781912', '13879147', '10107332', '14874873']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6965874175855891
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5187859607655321
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6788072719035834
- Mean Citation Score: 213.11673
- Max Citation Score: 236.31148
- Similarity Product: 169.67399363922118

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

Dataset: test