PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405710
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "104000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is described which uses directly modulated InGaN Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) or InGaN lasers as the transmitters for an underwater data-communication device. The receiver uses automatic gain control to facilitate performance of the apparatus over a wide-range of distances and water turbidities.

Claim (Index 58):
A method of optically transferring seismic data through an aqueous medium, comprising:\n transmitting, by a retrieval device comprising a first optical transmitter and a first optical receiver, light; detecting, by an ocean bottom seismic (\u201cOBS\u201d) node comprising a second optical receiver having one or more optical detectors, a presence of the retrieval device; adjusting, by one or more controllers of the OBS node a transmission parameter used by a second optical transmitter to transmit light with seismic data; controlling, by the one or more controllers of the OBS node, the second optical transmitter to direct the light with the seismic data through the aqueous medium to the first optical receiver of the retrieval device; entering, by the second optical transmitter of the OBS node, a power up state responsive to detection, by the second optical receiver, of the presence of the retrieval device; selecting, by at least one controller of the retrieval device, based on a signal from one or more optical detectors of the retrieval device, an anode in a multiple-anode photomultiplier tube to align an angular field of view of the first optical receiver with the second optical transmitter of the OBS node; transmitting, by the second optical transmitter of the OBS node, the light with the seismic data through the aqueous medium using the transmission parameter adjusted by the at least one controller, the light with the seismic data directed towards the first optical receiver through the aqueous medium by the one or more controllers; receiving, by the first optical receiver of the retrieval device, the light with the seismic data transmitted through the aqueous medium by the second optical transmitter of the OBS node; generating, by a photodiode of the first optical receiver, electrical output based on the light received by the first optical receiver from the second optical transmitter; and adjusting, by an automatic gain control amplifier of the retrieval device, a level of electrical output received from the first optical receiver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.14634
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15334486', '15664697', '13843942', '15237106', '15664707']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7265679149866802
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6104373410976865
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7149548575977809
- Mean Citation Score: 300.559116
- Max Citation Score: 333.83087
- Similarity Product: 317.2036722333688

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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