PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869812
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["398", "002000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an optical transceiver that includes a first set of electrical transmitters operatively coupled to a switch. Each electrical transmitter from the first set of electrical transmitters is configured to transmit an electrical signal from a set of electrical signals. In such embodiments, the switch is configured to switch an electrical signal from the set of electrical signals such that the set of electrical signals are transmitted via a second set of electrical transmitters. Each electrical transmitter from the second set of electrical transmitters is operatively coupled to an optical transmitter from a set of optical transmitters. The set of optical transmitters is operatively coupled to an optical multiplexer. In such embodiments, at least one electrical transmitter from the second set of electrical transmitters is associated with a failure within the optical transceiver.

Claim (Index 7):
A method, comprising:\n automatically identifying, at a first optical transceiver, a failure within the first optical transceiver, the first optical transceiver having an electrical portion and an optical portion operatively coupled to the electrical portion of the first optical transceiver, the electrical portion including a switch, the first optical transceiver including a controller and a variable optical attenuator (VOA), the controller being operatively coupled to the switch and the VOA; sending, from the controller, a first control signal to the switch in response to the failure from at least one of a transmitter or a receiver of the first optical transceiver; receiving, at the switch, a plurality of electrical signals associated with a first plurality of electrical transmitters, each electrical signal from the plurality of electrical signals uniquely associated with an electrical transmitter from the first plurality of electrical transmitters; switching, at the switch, an electrical signal from the plurality of electrical signals to a spare electrical transmitter within a second plurality of electrical transmitters such that the plurality of electrical signals are transmitted via the second plurality of electrical transmitters in response to the first control signal; and sending, from the controller, a second control signal to the VOA such that the VOA modulates with a signal representing control information for a second optical transceiver to be operatively coupled to the first optical transceiver, the control information associated with the failure within the first optical transceiver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.34091
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14871424', '14042068', '14871514', '14834168', '09643993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.650902836371273
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5625669431259327
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.642069247046739
- Mean Citation Score: 287.896468
- Max Citation Score: 384.93393
- Similarity Product: 367.5681198596174

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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