PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["398", "136000"]

Abstract:
A skew compensation apparatus and method. In an optical system that uses optical signals, skew may be generated as the optical signals are processed from an input optical signal to at least two electrical signals representative of the phase-differentiated optical signals. A compensation of the skew is provided by including an optical delay line in the path of the optical signal that does not suffer the skew (e.g., that serves as the time base for the skew measurement). The optical delay line introduces a delay T skew  equal to the delay suffered by the optical signal that is not taken as the time base. The two signals are thereby corrected for skew.

Claim (Index 32):
A communication system, comprising:\n a transmitter capable of generating an input optical signal comprising first and second optical component signals; a receiver configured to receive the first and second optical component signals from the transmitter via an optical medium, and to convert the first and second optical component signals into first and second electrical component signals, respectively; the second electrical component signal subject to timing delays relative to the first electrical component signal caused by the transmitter, the optical medium and the receiver; a first skew compensation element consisting of a waveguide optical delay line, consisting of a single fixed length of waveguide configured to apply a single fixed predetermined compensation timing delay to the second optical component signal, to at least partially compensate for at least one of the timing delays in the second electrical component signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98361
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14931796', '13505199', '14577007', '13730246', '13696516']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6764493188681424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5699949890179672
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6658038858831249
- Mean Citation Score: 265.709432
- Max Citation Score: 422.99628
- Similarity Product: 363.5463389953493

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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