PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16163762
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["398", "118000"]

Abstract:
A method for adjusting a radiation direction of an optical communication signal between a communication platform and a remote station includes: starting from an initial position of a beam deflection unit of the platform for steering the optical communication signal, adopting deflection positions of the beam deflection unit along two different lines of movement and in opposite directions along the lines of movement, the deflection positions being consistent with deflection angles having the same absolute value, each deflection position being held for a different period; measuring an intensity of the signal at the station; when an intensity change in the signal is discovered at the station, ascertaining a signal quality change in the signal and recording the duration of this intensity change; determining that intensity change that pertains to the best signal quality change, and the associated duration; changing the intensity of a guidance beam for the duration previously determined.

Claim (Index 1):
A communication platform, comprising:\n an emitter for generating an optical communication signal; an intensity detector for detecting the intensity of a guidance beam; a beam deflection unit for steering the optical communication signal in the direction of a remote station; an actuator for rotating the beam deflection unit about a pivot point; and a control unit for actuating the actuator; wherein the control unit is configured: to actuate the actuator such that the optical communication signal is deflected by the beam deflection unit in a first direction along a first line of movement for a prescribed first period and is subsequently deflected in a second direction along the first line of movement, opposite to the first direction of the first line of movement, for a prescribed second period; to actuate the actuator such that subsequently the optical communication signal is deflected by the beam deflection unit in a first direction along a second line of movement for a prescribed third period and is subsequently deflected in a second direction along the second line of movement, opposite to the first direction of the second line of movement, for a prescribed fourth period; and to obtain an intensity of the guidance beam as detected by the intensity detector and to take the detected intensity as a basis for determining a deflection direction of the beam deflection unit along the first line of movement or the second line of movement and to put the beam deflection unit into a deflection position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17568
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11497334', '14869000', '13989430', '15064634', '15536619']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6526142185094973
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4643986756648696
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6337926642250346
- Mean Citation Score: 135.699242
- Max Citation Score: 138.94794
- Similarity Product: 115.70438649029016

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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