PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16083717
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["375", "296000"]

Abstract:
Enclosed herewith is a method for protecting a link in an optical network configured for transmitting digital data employing a predetermined modulation format which comprises a number of symbols in a constellation diagram. A binary address is associated with each symbol. The modulation format allows for a constellation distortion, according to which the relative positions of constellation points in the constellation diagram are varied in a predetermined way by a predetermined degree. The method comprises the steps of: A) partitioning the traffic in two or more priority classes, B) mapping higher priority traffic to predefined bit positions within the binary symbol addresses, C) evaluating the quality of a predetermined protection link, D) determining a degree of distortion such that a desired transmission quality for the transmission of the traffic of the highest priority class or classes via said predetermined protection link and a desired transmission quality for the full traffic via said given link are simultaneously ensured, and E) employing said distorted constellation diagram for transmission of digital data over said given link.

Claim (Index 6):
The method according to  claim 5 , wherein said predefined position in the signal space corresponds to the center of mass of a subset of constellation points, or is chosen such that upon the variation, the average power of the signal remains unchanged.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11236
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15465921', '11440686', '10163167', '10282472', '11530328']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.50105184435544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5116499512053815
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5021116550404342
- Mean Citation Score: 199.406092
- Max Citation Score: 214.4306
- Similarity Product: 117.69009419789312

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

Dataset: test