PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973829
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["398", "079000"]

Abstract:
An optical network element for a hardware configured optical network includes a first optical port that receives an input optical signal comprising receive control information from the hardware configured optical network. A demodulator optically coupled to the first optical port decodes the receive control information for configuring the optical network element. A modulator having an electrical modulation input that receives transmit control information imparts a modulation onto an optical carrier thereby generating a transmit optical control signal representing the transmit control information. A second optical port transmits the transmit optical control signal representing the transmit control information to the hardware configured optical network.

Claim (Index 81):
A method for automatically establishing a data connection in a hardware configured network, the method comprising:\n a) connecting a first transceiver to an optical link in the hardware configured network; b) connecting a second transceiver to the optical link in the hardware configured network; c) generating at the first transceiver a transmit optical signal comprising client data traffic at a wavelength; d) encoding at the first transceiver a modulation representing control information by imparting a modulation onto the generated transmit optical signal comprising client data traffic at the wavelength having a modulation frequency that is less than a modulation frequency of the client data traffic, thereby generating a transmit optical control signal that represents the control information; e) transmitting the transmit optical control signal that represents the control information over the optical link and receiving the transmit optical control signal at the second transceiver; f) decoding at the second transceiver the control information encoded in the received transmit optical control signal using electrical filtering to remove the client data traffic from the received transmit optical control signal; and g) configuring the second transceiver using the decoded control information and establishing the data connection between the first transceiver and the second transceiver over the optical link based on the configuration of the second transceiver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48837
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14717958', '12767921', '13029095', '14312930', '12623711']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6603175959409043
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5203403553767635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6463198718844902
- Mean Citation Score: 193.025192
- Max Citation Score: 302.28152
- Similarity Product: 261.937879685092

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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