PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942244
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["405", "184000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to method for underground installation of a pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly. The method includes a first step of drilling a first pilot bore from a second manhole to a first manhole. In addition, the method includes a second step of pulling the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly. Further, the method includes a third step of drilling a second pilot bore from a third manhole to the second manhole. Furthermore, the method includes a fourth step of pulling the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly from the second manhole to the third manhole. Moreover, the method of underground installation of the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly eliminates the need for blowing the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly with a cable blowing machine.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for underground installation of a pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly, the method comprising:\n drilling a first pilot bore with a fill factor in a range of 0.015-0.25 from a second manhole to a first manhole, wherein the second manhole and the first manhole are separated by first distance, wherein the first pilot bore has a first diameter, wherein the first pilot bore is drilled by a first drill string, wherein a first reamer is attached to the first drill string to facilitate the drilling of the first pilot bore, wherein the first drill string is associated with a first horizontal directional drilling machine, wherein the first reamer is detached from the first drill string after completion of the drilling of the first pilot bore; attaching a second reamer to the first drill string, wherein the second reamer is attached at a first end of the first drill string; attaching the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly to the second reamer, wherein the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly is attached to a first end of the second reamer; pulling the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly that is spooled over a cable drum placed around the first manhole and attached to the first end of the second reamer, wherein the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly is pulled from the first manhole to the second manhole, wherein the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly is installed for the first distance, wherein the pulling of the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly is done by the first horizontal directional drilling machine; drilling a second pilot bore with a fill factor in a range of 0.015-0.25 from a third manhole to the second manhole, wherein the third manhole and the second manhole are separated by a second distance, wherein the second pilot bore has a second diameter, wherein the second pilot bore is drilled by a second drill string, wherein a third reamer is attached to the second drill string to facilitate the drilling of the second pilot bore, wherein the second drill string is associated with a second horizontal directional drilling machine, wherein the second horizontal directional drilling machine is placed around the third manhole, wherein the third reamer is detached from the second drill string after completion of the drilling of the second pilot bore; attaching a fourth reamer to the second drill string, wherein the fourth reamer is attached at a first end of the second drill string; attaching the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly to the fourth reamer, wherein the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly is attached to a first end of the fourth reamer; and pulling the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly installed till the first distance, wherein the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly attached to the first end of the fourth reamer is pulled from the second manhole to the third manhole, wherein the pulling of the pre-ducted optical fiber cable assembly is done by the second horizontal directional drilling machine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.29268
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10766540', '11267017', '12489324', '10766199', '12696735']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7599379076938179
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4952986329420564
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7334739802186417
- Mean Citation Score: 222.63025
- Max Citation Score: 232.31192
- Similarity Product: 162.53114749358176

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