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 17):
A method, comprising:\n transmitting an outbound optical signal representative of an outbound electrical signal to a periodical filter having a transmission spectrum with periodic transmission peaks and troughs, a first frequency of the outbound electrical signal aligned to one of the transmission peaks or one of the transmission troughs of the periodical filter; and receiving an inbound optical signal from the periodical filter, a second frequency of the inbound electrical signal aligned to one of the transmission troughs of the periodical filter if the first frequency of the outbound optical signal is aligned to one of the transmission peaks of the periodical filter or aligned to one of the transmission peaks of the periodical filter if the first frequency of the outbound optical signal is aligned to one of the transmission troughs of the periodical filter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63333
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15465443', '15433904', '14873047', '11448339', '10889333']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6677083236975415
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6205115884435503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6629886501721425
- Mean Citation Score: 308.284044
- Max Citation Score: 597.1075
- Similarity Product: 456.938559255898

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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