PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "147000"]

Abstract:
An optical fiber distribution cable for servicing living units inside a MDU building, is formed by surrounding differently colored optical fibers with a jacket having a diameter of not more than about 3.5 mm. The jacket is opaque for hiding the colored fibers at least partially from view, thus reducing or eliminating any negative visual impact of the cable when installed. The colored cable fibers are arranged so that they are visible to an installer when only the cable jacket is cut open. Connection modules are mounted at corresponding living units, and a section of the cable is placed in each module. The jacket on a cable section in a given module is cut open, and a fiber assigned to the corresponding living unit is identified by color. The fiber is cut, and a length of the fiber is removed from the cable section and stored in the given module.

Claim (Index 1):
A procedure for installing an optical fiber distribution cable in a multi-dwelling unit (MDU) building for providing communication services to a number of living units inside the building, comprising:\n providing a number of bend insensitive optical fibers each of which has a coating of a different color to identify the fiber; surrounding the optical fibers with a flame-retardant outer jacket to form a distribution cable having an outer diameter of not more than about 3.5 mm; forming the outer jacket sufficiently opaque to hide the colored coatings on the optical fibers at least partially from view, thereby reducing or eliminating any negative visual impact of the distribution cable when the cable is installed along a hallway wall or other visible building surface to service living units inside the MDU building; arranging the optical fibers of the distribution cable so that the colored coatings on the fibers are visible to an installer when only the outer jacket of the cable is cut open; identifying each living unit inside the MDU building to be serviced by an optical fiber of the distribution cable, determining a corresponding installation path for the cable, and mounting a connection module at or near each living unit along the path; placing a section of the distribution cable in each of the connection modules; cutting open the outer jacket on the section of the distribution cable placed in a given connection module at or near a corresponding living unit, and identifying an optical fiber assigned to the living unit by the color of the coating on the fiber; cutting the identified optical fiber in the section of the distribution cable placed in the given connection module, removing a length of the identified fiber from the section, and storing the length of the identified fiber in the given connection module for connection to a drop fiber for the corresponding living unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93976
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14844410', '14783891', '12489950', '15935222', '12731724']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8135955659440743
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5201084481141866
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7842468541610856
- Mean Citation Score: 229.790208
- Max Citation Score: 322.77036
- Similarity Product: 213.9903766975808

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

Dataset: test