PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978295
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["398", "135000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to an optical device including at least one temperature-dependent tunable element for controlling a wavelength of an optical signal, a first temperature control circuit for controlling a temperature of a first region of the optical device; and a second temperature control circuit for controlling a temperature of a second region of the optical device. The second region may include a portion of the first region. The second region may be smaller than the first region. The tunable element may be positioned in the second region such that a temperature of the tunable element is controlled based on the second temperature control circuit controlling the temperature of the second region. The tunable element may be one of (i) a laser for transmitting an outgoing optical signal and (ii) an optical filter coupled to a photodetector for receiving an incoming optical signal.

Claim (Index 19):
A system for regulating a temperature of an optical device, wherein the optical device emits an optical signal at an operating wavelength, and wherein the temperature of the optical device affects the operating wavelength of the optical signal, the system comprising:\n a control circuit configured to receive a burst-mode switch signal, wherein the burst-mode switch signal switching from the first state to the second state causes the optical device to stop emitting the optical signal, and wherein the burst-mode switch signal switching from the second state to the first state causes the optical device to begin emitting the optical signal; and a time delay circuit configured to create a time delay between (i) the burst-mode switch signal switching from the second state to the first state and (ii) the optical device beginning to emit the optical signal; wherein the control circuit is configured to determine an amount of time that the optical device is not emitting the optical signal based on the burst-mode switch signal, wherein the control circuit is further configured to control an electric current provided to the heating element for increasing the temperature of the optical device, and wherein the control circuit is configured to control the electric current provided to the heating element only during the time delay.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68966
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15978448', '15631594', '13760767', '13792173', '13195234']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6372013472255886
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5064721557555966
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6241284280785894
- Mean Citation Score: 184.146146
- Max Citation Score: 214.32898
- Similarity Product: 156.20215553310868

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

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