PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923105
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["398", "025000"]

Abstract:
The disclosed methods, apparatus, and systems allow safe and easy deployment of amplifier products that exceed laser safe limits without the need for fiber testing and characterization or OTDR techniques. One example embodiment is a method for ensuring eye safety in an optical network. The example method includes detecting optical connectivity between an output of a transmit amplifier and a passive optical processing element. The transmit amplifier is located at a first network node and is configured to output optical power greater than eye-safe level. The passive optical processing element is located at a second network node and is configured to guarantee a reduction of a maximum optical power level at an output side of the passive optical processing element to an eye-safe optical level. The detecting occurs at the first network node, and the transmit amplifier is enabled or disabled as a function of detection of the optical connectivity.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein detecting the optical connectivity includes transmitting an amplified or non-amplified pilot tone to the passive optical processing element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17808
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15610366', '11722788', '12935805', '10037085', '10634509']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6491291771235219
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5082191581776742
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6350381752289371
- Mean Citation Score: 185.260938
- Max Citation Score: 200.44196
- Similarity Product: 148.59729960021969

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

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