PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953473
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "016000"]

Abstract:
Using pump-probe measurements on multi-span optical links may result in the determination of one or more of the following: 1) wavelength-dependent power profile and gain evolution along the optical link; 2) wavelength-dependent dispersion map; and 3) location of regions of high polarization-dependent loss (PDL) and polarization-mode dispersion (PMD). Such measurements may be a useful diagnostic for maintenance and upgrade activities on deployed cables as well as for commissioning new cables.

Claim (Index 2):
The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the coherent reference includes a coherent component of an advance pilot pulse of the pilot pulses in advance of the probe pulse and a coherent component of a following pilot pulse of the pilot pulses following the probe pulse, and wherein performing the measurement on the probe pulse beyond the end of the optical fiber to measure optical properties of the probe pulse relative to the coherent reference comprises using the advance pilot pulse and the following pilot pulse to estimate and correct differences between transmit and receive laser sources.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41379
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15135272', '14346955', '11580473', '12029626', '13767851']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6356328392521569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.623773104566512
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6344468657835923
- Mean Citation Score: 264.51573
- Max Citation Score: 504.20062
- Similarity Product: 502.1588997454858

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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