PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16068746
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "135000"]

Abstract:
Examples of optical splitter systems, methods and modules enable the stacking and interconnecting of one or more optical splitter modules. One example of a splitter module has a housing and one or more connection members for connecting to adjacent instances of like splitter modules. The housing includes a plurality of cable ports providing access to an optical splitter storage area. Each connection member includes a tab and a slot, the tab configured to slidingly engage with the slot of an adjacent connection member. Sliding engagement of adjacent instances of splitter modules can form a stack of splitter modules along a stacking axis. In some cases a splitter module includes a latching mechanism to removably engage an adjacent splitter module. The latching mechanism can restrict sliding engagement and thus decoupling of the adjacent splitter modules.

Claim (Index 12):
An optical splitter stacking system, comprising:\n an optical splitter housing comprising\n a bottom planar wall and a top planar wall, \n an optical splitter storage area located between the bottom planar wall and the top planar wall, \n a plurality of connection members comprising a linear arrangement of first side connection members and a linear arrangement of second side connection members, \n a first side wall comprising the linear arrangement of first side connection members, \n a second side wall comprising the linear arrangement of second side connection members, \n a third side wall comprising a cable port providing access to the optical splitter storage area, and \n a fourth side wall comprising a plurality of cable ports providing access to the optical splitter storage area; and \n a latching mechanism at the third side wall; wherein each of the first and second side connection members comprises a rigid wall member having a first end and a second end, the first end at least partially defining a slot extending along a portion of the corresponding first side wall or the second side wall, and the second end comprising a tab projecting from the rigid wall member; wherein each of the connection members are configured to slidingly engage with corresponding connection members on an additional instance of the optical splitter housing, to form a stacked arrangement of optical splitter housings; and wherein the latching mechanism is configured to removably engage an additional instance of the latching mechanism on the additional instance of the optical splitter housing to selectively stop sliding disengagement of the optical splitter housing from the additional instance of the optical splitter housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10799328', '11213772', '11584068', '11985846', '14793162']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7853059876253374
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4799452256271103
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7547699114255148
- Mean Citation Score: 188.804816
- Max Citation Score: 193.88846
- Similarity Product: 150.87116601078154

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

Dataset: test