PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16170850
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["398", "136000"]

Abstract:
A transceiver having an improved transmitter optical signal to noise ratio, and methods of making and using the same.

Claim (Index 14):
An optical transceiver for receiving an electrical input signal and outputting an optical output signal responsive to the electrical input signal, and for receiving an optical input signal and outputting an electrical output signal responsive to the optical input signal, comprising:\n a first shared optical source capable of generating input light; a first splitter capable of dividing the first input light into transmitter light and local oscillator (LO) light; an optical transmitter configured to receive the transmitter light and the electrical input signal and to transmit the optical output signal; a second shared optical source configured to emit pump light; a second splitter capable of dividing the pump light into a first transmitter pump light portion and a second receiver pump light portion; a first gain-controlled optical amplifier capable of amplifying the optical output signal; a second free-running optical amplifier capable of amplifying the optical input signal; a coherent optical receiver configured to receive the input optical signal and the local oscillator (LO) light and to output the electrical output signal; a first control loop capable of sampling the optical output signal and increasing power to the pump light, thereby increasing power to the first transmitter pump light portion for the first optical amplifier to increase amplification of the optical output signal, resulting in an increase in power to the second receiver pump light portion for the second optical amplifier to increase amplification of the optical input signal; and a variable optical attenuator (VOA) capable of attenuating the optical input signal in response to the amplification of the optical input signal by the second optical amplifier resulting from an increase in power to the pump light for amplification of the optical output signal by the first optical amplifier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.05
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15405516', '14794889', '11185040', '15703704', '10817105']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6355413495300061
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5665594679574516
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6286431613727507
- Mean Citation Score: 279.11854000000005
- Max Citation Score: 396.84473
- Similarity Product: 339.4476279074061

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

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