PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965815
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["398", "016000"]

Abstract:
An optical time-domain reflectometer, OTDR, apparatus is configured to measure a backscattered trace of a fiber link under test (FLUT). The OTDR apparatus includes at least one photo diode adapted to detect an optical signal reflected from points along the fiber link under test in response to an optical test signal generated by a laser of the OTDR apparatus and supplied to the fiber link under test. The reflected optical test signal is attenuated or amplified automatically such that the power of the optical signal received by the photodiode is limited to a predetermined power range.

Claim (Index 11):
The OTDR apparatus according to  claim 10  wherein the photo diode comprises an avalanche photo diode wherein an avalanche control voltage of the avalanche photo diode is changed automatically by said processor of the OTDR apparatus depending on the signal strength of the optical signal received by said photo diode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77586
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14391700', '11959475', '13777959', '10968308', '14092227']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.708153449514588
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5257378569034463
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6899118902534739
- Mean Citation Score: 238.7772
- Max Citation Score: 255.16878
- Similarity Product: 164.6552047989428

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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