PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15770584
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["398", "079000"]

Abstract:
A communication apparatus comprises a regular optical transceiver that generates regular subcarrier signals serving as subcarrier signals, a narrowband optical transceiver capable of generating narrowband subcarrier signals serving as subcarrier signals each having a narrower frequency band than the regular subcarrier signal, and a subcarrier configuration determiner that determines the configuration of a plurality of subcarrier signals in a super-channel signal, based on information on the number of optical filter stages to pass through. The regular optical transceiver shifts the positions of the regular subcarrier signals in the super-channel signal, according to optical frequency shift amounts indicating shift amounts of the plurality of subcarrier signals represented by the configuration determined by the subcarrier configuration determiner. The narrowband optical transceiver shifts the positions of the narrowband subcarrier signals in the super-channel signal according to the optical frequency shift amounts.

Claim (Index 9):
A subcarrier signal arrangement method comprising:\n a subcarrier configuration determination step of a subcarrier configuration determiner determining a configuration of a plurality of subcarrier signals in a super-channel signal, based on information on the number of optical filter stages to pass through, which is information on the number of optical filters through which the super-channel signal passes in a transmission path when the super-channel signal is transmitted to a counterpart communication apparatus; a regular subcarrier signal generation step of a regular optical transceiver generating a regular subcarrier signal serving as a subcarrier signal whose position in the super-channel signal is shifted according to optical frequency shift amounts indicating shift amounts of the plurality of subcarrier signals represented by the configuration determined by the subcarrier configuration determiner; and a narrowband subcarrier signal generation step of a narrowband optical transceiver generating a predetermined number of narrowband subcarrier signals, the predetermined number being determined by the subcarrier configuration determiner, the narrowband subcarrier signals each serving as a subcarrier signal having a narrower frequency band than the regular subcarrier signal, a position of the narrowband subcarrier signal in the super-channel signal being shifted according to the optical frequency shift amount.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68519
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15747179', '11154930', '14155518', '14031809', '15743946']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.642309574117224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4925213339514194
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6273307501006435
- Mean Citation Score: 202.412188
- Max Citation Score: 208.32622
- Similarity Product: 178.6627338003695

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

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