PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15910518
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["398", "028000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to the field of fiber optics, and more specifically to apparatuses, methods, and/or systems associated with testing fiber optic transmitters. In an embodiment, the present invention is an apparatus comprising a laser optimized multimode fiber having near minimally compliant effective modal bandwidth, near maximum channel length, and α-profile that produces an R-MMF DMD slope.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for selecting a test optical fiber for use in testing one or more optical transmitter, the method comprising the steps of:\n for the test optical fiber determining:\n a desired effective modal bandwidth (EMB D ); \n a percentage of allowable variation of the EMB D  (A); \n a desired length (L D ); \n a percentage of allowable variation of the L D  (B); \n a tolerance variable (X); and \n a desired total bandwidth BW, where \n BW = EMB D L D ; selecting a candidate optical fiber; obtaining an effective modal bandwidth of the candidate optical fiber (EMB sp ); rejecting the candidate optical fiber when EMB sp \u2265EMB D (1+A+B) is true or when EMB sp \u2264EMB D (1\u2212A\u2212B\u2212X) is true; cutting the candidate optical fiber to a first length L 1 , where L 1 =L D (1+B), when EMB sp \u2265EMB D (1+A+B) is false and when EMB sp \u2264EMB D (1\u2212A\u2212B\u2212X) is false; measuring an effective modal bandwidth of the candidate optical fiber cut to the first length L 1  (EMB m1 ); accepting the candidate optical fiber cut to the first length L 1  as the test optical fiber when BW \ue8a0 ( 1 - A ) \u2264 EMB m \ue89e \ue89e 1 L 1 \u2264 BW \ue8a0 ( 1 + A ) \u2003is true; performing additional evaluation steps when BW \ue8a0 ( 1 - A ) \u2264 EMB m \ue89e \ue89e 1 L 1 \u2264 BW \ue8a0 ( 1 + A ) \u2003is false, the additional evaluation steps including:\n rejecting the candidate optical fiber cut to the first length L 1  when \n EMB m \ue89e \ue89e 1 L D \ue8a0 ( 1 + B ) \u2264 BW \ue8a0 ( 1 - A ) \u2003is false or when EMB m \ue89e \ue89e 1 L D \ue8a0 ( 1 - B ) \u2265 BW \ue8a0 ( 1 - A ) \u2003is false; cutting the candidate optical fiber cut to the first length L 1  down to a second length L 2 , where L 2 =max((EMB m1 /BW),L D (1\u2212B)) when EMB m \ue89e \ue89e 1 L D \ue8a0 ( 1 + B ) \u2264 BW \ue8a0 ( 1 - A ) \u2003is true and when EMB m \ue89e \ue89e 1 L D \ue8a0 ( 1 - B ) \u2265 BW \ue8a0 ( 1 - A ) \u2003is true; measuring an effective modal bandwidth of the candidate optical fiber cut to the second length L 2  (EMB m2 ); rejecting the candidate optical fiber cut to the second length L 2  when BW \ue8a0 ( 1 - A ) \u2264 EMB m \ue89e \ue89e 2 L 2 \u2264 BW \ue8a0 ( 1 + A ) \u2003is false; and accepting the candidate optical fiber cut to the second length L 2  as the test optical fiber when BW \ue8a0 ( 1 - A ) \u2264 EMB m \ue89e \ue89e 2 L 2 \u2264 BW \ue8a0 ( 1 + A ) \u2003is true.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35294
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15142532', '15470153', '14806273', '15778709', '15448040']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7259420330232028
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6039460689964091
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7137424366205235
- Mean Citation Score: 369.499046
- Max Citation Score: 567.4143
- Similarity Product: 411.0804660258651

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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