PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16311257
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["398", "045000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a technology for simultaneously monitoring a plurality of relay devices. A relay device  1  comprises a superimposing unit  2  and a monitor unit  3 . The relay device  1  is interposed on an optical transmission path between optical communication devices that send and receive an optical signal, and has a function for relaying the optical signal flowing through the optical transmission path. The monitor unit  3  monitors the operation status of the relay device  1 . At a predetermined timing, the superimposing unit  2  superimposes monitor unit  3  monitoring-information onto an optical signal of a primary signal flowing through the optical transmission path, by performing modulation processing on the basis of an oscillation signal having a predetermined oscillation frequency. The relay device  1  can spontaneously superimpose the monitoring information onto an optical signal and transmit same.

Claim (Index 3):
The relay device according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a connection path for connecting an upstream optical transmission path and a downstream optical transmission path via a switch circuit, the upstream optical transmission path and the downstream optical transmission path being arranged between the terminal stations, the upstream optical transmission path passing an upstream optical signal flowing from the terminal station on one side to the terminal station on the other side, the downstream optical transmission path passing a downstream optical signal flowing in the opposite direction to the upstream optical signal; and a controller that controls the switch circuit so as to guide the upstream optical signal to the downstream optical transmission path via the switch circuit and the connection path when detecting that the strength of the downstream optical signal has become equal to or smaller than a threshold, wherein the superimposing circuit includes a configuration to superimpose the monitoring information onto the downstream optical signal of the primary signal flowing through the downstream optical transmission path, or onto the upstream optical signal guided to the downstream optical transmission path via the switch circuit and the connection path when the strength of the downstream optical signal has become equal to or smaller than a threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19697
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10740539', '10073195', '10530976', '16140742', '12620121']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.666865465838979
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5013266778609902
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6503115870411802
- Mean Citation Score: 192.892056
- Max Citation Score: 211.27718
- Similarity Product: 157.92400047195315

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

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