PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16412111
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "072000"]

Abstract:
In an example, a communication module includes an optical transmitter, an optical receiver, and a periodical filter. The optical transmitter is configured to emit an outbound optical signal. The optical receiver is configured to receive an inbound optical signal. A first frequency of the outbound optical signal is offset from a second frequency of the inbound optical signal by an amount less than a channel spacing of a multiplexer/demultiplexer implemented in an optical communication system that includes the communication module. The periodical filter is positioned in optical paths of both the outbound optical signal and the inbound optical signal and has a transmission spectrum with periodic transmission peaks and troughs. The first frequency of the outbound optical signal may be aligned to one of the transmission peaks and the second frequency of the inbound optical signal may be aligned to one of the transmission troughs, or vice versa.

Claim (Index 13):
The system of  claim 12 , further comprising:\n a wavelength monitor communicatively coupled to the optical fiber and configured to monitor wavelengths of at least one of the inbound optical signals or the outbound optical signals; a centralized controller coupled to the local wavelength monitor, the plurality of local bidirectional communication modules, and a plurality of remote bidirectional communication modules coupled to module-side ports of the remote multiplexer/demultiplexer; wherein the centralized controller, based on wavelength monitor information from the wavelength monitor, is configured to control central wavelengths of at least one of the inbound optical signals or the outbound optical signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63333
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15465443', '15433904', '14873047', '11448339', '10889333']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.668619674454569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6179660170206973
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6635543087111818
- Mean Citation Score: 308.284044
- Max Citation Score: 597.1075
- Similarity Product: 447.7268434506655

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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