PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957844
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "079000"]

Abstract:
The differences in the power received from multiple optical network units connected to an optical hub may exceed an allowable dynamic range. The dynamic range may be reduced by determining the power received at the optical hub from each optical network unit and adjusting the power transmitted from one or more optical network units to reduce the overall dynamic range. For each optical network unit, the hub may determine the received optical power in an upstream signal from the optical network unit and receive a digital representation of the transmitted power. The hub may determine to adjust the optical power sent from one or more of the optical network units to reduce the dynamic range. The adjustments to the optical powers at the optical network units may be performed by sending commands from the optical hub to each adjusted optical network unit via a downstream signal.

Claim (Index 17):
An optical communication apparatus comprising:\n at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising: determining a first optical power received from a first optical source at a first optical node through a first optical fiber; determining a second optical power received from a second optical source at a second optical node through a second optical fiber; comparing the first optical power to the second optical power; and generating, in response to the first optical power exceeding the second optical power by a predetermined threshold, a message to cause an adjustment to the first optical power to exceed the second optical power by less than the predetermined threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71429
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11778135', '14342642', '15878258', '15934321', '10685580']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6565066202166225
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4977750056109798
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6406334587560583
- Mean Citation Score: 171.12914400000005
- Max Citation Score: 180.61607
- Similarity Product: 128.19392374091626

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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