PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["398", "115000"]

Abstract:
An optical signal transmission apparatus generates a multi-level optical signal from a multi-level electric signal. The optical signal transmission apparatus detects, based on a supervisory signal generated from an optical signal, an electric-to-optical (E/O) conversion characteristic of an E/O converter configured to convert an electric signal into an optical signal. For example, when the E/O converter generates a multi-level optical signal from a multi-level electric signal based on a bias signal, the optical signal transmission apparatus determines a correspondence relationship between the bias signal and the optical signal. The optical signal transmission apparatus adjusts a use range of intensities of the bias signal based on the determined correspondence relationship so that the E/O converter may linearly operate.

Claim (Index 12):
The optical signal transmission apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the controller is configured to:\n determine a ratio between a change in the gain and a change in an intensity of the optical signal based on the generated supervisory signal; and determine to change the use gain range when the determined ratio is less than or equal to a preset threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4902
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14575020', '12946844', '15395501', '11819891', '14660045']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6874628516104883
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4958002014940377
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6682965865988432
- Mean Citation Score: 171.27301599999996
- Max Citation Score: 175.66396
- Similarity Product: 127.9932679455042

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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