PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["398", "115000"]

Abstract:
An optical signal transmission apparatus generates a multi-level optical signal from a multi-level electric signal. The optical signal transmission apparatus detects, based on a supervisory signal generated from an optical signal, an electric-to-optical (E/O) conversion characteristic of an E/O converter configured to convert an electric signal into an optical signal. For example, when the E/O converter generates a multi-level optical signal from a multi-level electric signal based on a bias signal, the optical signal transmission apparatus determines a correspondence relationship between the bias signal and the optical signal. The optical signal transmission apparatus adjusts a use range of intensities of the bias signal based on the determined correspondence relationship so that the E/O converter may linearly operate.

Claim (Index 6):
The optical signal transmission apparatus of  claim 4 , wherein when the intensity of the optical signal nonlinearly changes based on the change in the amplitude of the bias signal, the controller is configured to change the use range based on the amplitude of the bias signal that allows the intensity of the optical signal to nonlinearly change.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4902
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14575020', '12946844', '15395501', '11819891', '14660045']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6849266210964079
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5071203765088057
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6671459966376477
- Mean Citation Score: 171.27301599999996
- Max Citation Score: 175.66396
- Similarity Product: 114.9499497008896

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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