PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16265777
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "072000"]

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices for network communications to reduce optical beat interference (OBI) in upstream communications are described. For example, a fiber node may provide a seed source to injection lock upstream laser diodes. Therefore, upstream communications from each injection locked laser diode may primarily include the wavelength associated with each seed source. The seed sources may be unique to each end device and configured to minimize OBI. That is, the upstream laser diodes may be generic, but the collected seed source may enable upstream communications at varying wavelengths. The end device may provide upstream communications by externally modulating a signal generated by the injection locked laser diode.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for network communications, comprising:\n an optical circulator configured to collect a seed source spanning a wavelength range and direct the seed source to a laser diode; the laser diode configured to output a signal comprising primarily the wavelength range based at least in part on the collecting the seed source at the laser diode; an external modulator configured to modulate the signal output by the laser diode, wherein the optical circulator is further configured to collect the modulated signal and direct the modulated signal upstream.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8209
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15861303', '15283632', '12445935', '10638842', '14236071']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6769820687846022
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5150929127955192
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.660793153185694
- Mean Citation Score: 227.785732
- Max Citation Score: 273.23914
- Similarity Product: 221.83465482774497

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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