PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16412111
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "072000"]

Abstract:
In an example, a communication module includes an optical transmitter, an optical receiver, and a periodical filter. The optical transmitter is configured to emit an outbound optical signal. The optical receiver is configured to receive an inbound optical signal. A first frequency of the outbound optical signal is offset from a second frequency of the inbound optical signal by an amount less than a channel spacing of a multiplexer/demultiplexer implemented in an optical communication system that includes the communication module. The periodical filter is positioned in optical paths of both the outbound optical signal and the inbound optical signal and has a transmission spectrum with periodic transmission peaks and troughs. The first frequency of the outbound optical signal may be aligned to one of the transmission peaks and the second frequency of the inbound optical signal may be aligned to one of the transmission troughs, or vice versa.

Claim (Index 14):
The system of  claim 13 , wherein:\n the local multiplexer/demultiplexer comprises a 100 gigahertz (GHz) multiplexer/demultiplexer; the plurality of local bidirectional communication modules includes forty local bidirectional communication modules configured to collectively generate forty outbound optical signals, each on a different channel than each other; the plurality of remote bidirectional communication modules includes forty remote bidirectional communication modules configured to collectively generate forty inbound optical signals, each on a different channel than each other and than the forty outbound optical signals; and the channels of the forty outbound optical signals and the forty inbound optical signals all fall within a wavelength range of the ITU-T C-band from 1530-1565 nanometers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63333
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15465443', '15433904', '14873047', '11448339', '10889333']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6874964937124403
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6399607906455176
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6827429234057479
- Mean Citation Score: 308.284044
- Max Citation Score: 597.1075
- Similarity Product: 520.3185849432647

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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