PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926227
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["398", "043000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure includes methods and systems in which idle tones are added at an ingress and terminated at an egress of a given fiberoptic communication link between ROADM nodes. An equalization process can be performed across the spectrum of available wavelength channels and then a determination can be made of a number of channels that can be added or dropped at a given time that meet a maximum threshold for change in power of the channels in the available wavelength. As channels without information-carrying signals are filled with idle tones, the stability of the optical system can be improved as there is less variability in power change when all of the channels have a substantially similar nominal power and a signal on one or more of those channels are added or removed.

Claim (Index 22):
The apparatus of  claim 20 , wherein the link information includes one or more of: link topology, span loss, optical amplifier gain for each of the at least one optical amplifier, noise figure, channel power, bit error rate (BER), polarization dependent loss (PDL), polarization mode dispersion (PMD), a filtering effect of a wavelength selective switch (WSS) in the OMS, and back-to-back performance of transponder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67073
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15250202', '15249784', '14317737', '13934890', '15373289']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6935243192402102
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5074809281476313
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6749199801309523
- Mean Citation Score: 198.41157200000004
- Max Citation Score: 225.34407
- Similarity Product: 169.30631357134936

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

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