PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965579
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["398", "045000"]

Abstract:
A CO comprises a plurality of IM lasers and a Butler matrix system coupled to the plurality of IM lasers. The Butler matrix system comprises a plurality of optical input ports corresponding to the plurality of IM lasers, Butler matrix components coupled to the plurality of optical input ports, and a plurality of optical output ports coupled to the Butler matrix components and corresponding to the plurality of optical input ports. A method comprises generating an optical signal; receiving an analog electrical signal; modulating the analog electrical signal onto the optical signal using IM to create a modulated optical signal; and introducing, using a Butler matrix system, a phase shift to the modulated optical signal to create a phase-shifted modulated optical signal.

Claim (Index 17):
The CO of  claim 16 , further comprising a detector coupled to the optical switch and configured to convert the phase-shifted modulated optical signal into a received analog electrical signal using direct detection (DD).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.21951
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14766980', '14427085', '14596939', '15636183', '13288486']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6669279133093194
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5151031980447858
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6517454417828661
- Mean Citation Score: 199.462588
- Max Citation Score: 221.66609
- Similarity Product: 145.3834559268886

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

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