PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962820
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "115000"]

Abstract:
In a first configuration, circuitry of a fiber node may be configured to modulate an optical carrier by an analog upstream electrical signal received via the electrical network. In a second configuration, the circuitry may be configured to digitize the analog upstream electrical signal to generate a digitized upstream signal, and modulate the optical carrier with the digitized upstream signal. An optical receiver of the fiber node may be configured to convert a downstream optical signal to a downstream electrical signal. In the first configuration, the downstream electrical signal may be a first analog signal and the circuitry may be configured to output the first analog signal into the electrical network. In a third configuration, the downstream electrical signal is a digitized waveform and the circuitry is configured to convert the digitized waveform to a second analog signal and output the second analog signal into the electrical network.

Claim (Index 11):
A method comprising:\n performing by circuitry in a fiber node of a hybrid fiber-coaxial network, wherein said circuitry comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), an optical receiver, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a switch, a configuration controller, and an optical transmitter comprising a modulator, and wherein said circuitry is configured to communicate optical signals to and from an optical fiber using said optical transmitter and said optical receiver and to communicate electrical signals via a duplexer coupler to said DAC and said ADC, said DAC coupled to said optical receiver and said ADC coupler to said optical transmitter: for a first configuration, configuring, using said configuration controller, said modulator to modulate an optical signal with an analog upstream electrical signal received via said diplexer and said ADC is bypassed using said switch; and for a second configuration, configuring, using said configuration controller, said ADC to digitize said analog upstream electrical signal to generate a digitized upstream signal, and modulating, via said modulator, said optical signal with said digitized upstream signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.7619
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15354665', '14157105', '10033378', '12576958', '14530391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6461281337981983
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5590054387267032
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6374158642910488
- Mean Citation Score: 266.919504
- Max Citation Score: 376.92657
- Similarity Product: 364.5514641381508

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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