PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16293188
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["398", "045000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for a connectionless integrated optical receiver and transmitter test are disclosed and may include an optoelectronic transceiver comprising a transmit (Tx) path and a receive (Rx) path, with each path comprising optical switches. The transceiver may be operable to: generate a first modulated optical signal utilizing a modulator in the Tx path, couple the first modulated optical signal to a first optical switch in the Rx path via a second optical switch in the Tx path when the optoelectronic transceiver is configured in a self-test mode, receive a second modulated optical signal via a grating coupler in the Rx path when the optoelectronics transceiver is configured in an operational mode, and communicate the second modulated optical signal to a photodetector in the Rx path via the first optical switch. The first modulated optical signal may be communicated to a grating coupler in the Tx path via the second optical switch.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for communication, the method comprising:\n in an optoelectronic transceiver comprising a transmit (Tx) path and a receive (Rx) path, each path comprising one or more optical switches:\n coupling a first modulated optical signal to a photodetector in the Rx path via one or more optical switches when the optoelectronic transceiver is configured in a first self-test mode; \n communicating the first modulated signal to a grating coupler in the Rx path via one or more optical switches when the optoelectronic transceiver is configured in a second self-test mode; and \n communicating the first modulated signal to a grating coupler in the Tx path when the optoelectronics transceiver is configured in an operational mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15946527', '15401337', '14752729', '15962829', '16180725']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7074751555963084
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5609855729022865
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6928261973269062
- Mean Citation Score: 320.796032
- Max Citation Score: 397.9775
- Similarity Product: 377.8856948617101

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

Dataset: test