PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747179
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "140000"]

Abstract:
To enable the transmission and reception of a super-channel optical signal to continue maintaining the possible transmission capacity without providing a redundant configuration in advance even though a failure occurs in a subcarrier, an optical transmitter  10  of the present invention includes a splitting means  20  for splitting an inputted client signal so as to make frequency efficiency in optical modulation means optimized; optical modulation means  31  to  3 N for modulating one of subcarriers having mutually different wavelengths with the client signal output; a multiplexing means  40  for multiplexing the modulated signals and outputting a super-channel optical signal; and a control means  50 , in a state where a failure occurs in one of the subcarriers, for making a split client signal output to modulation means corresponding to a subcarrier having no failure and applying a modulation method with a higher frequency efficiency to at least one of the modulation means.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical transmitter, comprising:\n a splitting section configured to split an inputted client signal depending on a control signal so as to make frequency efficiency in N pieces of optical modulation sections optimized, and output a client signal; N pieces of optical modulation sections configured to modulate one of subcarriers having mutually different wavelengths with the client signal output by one of a first modulation method and a second modulation method with a higher frequency efficiency than the first modulation method, and output one of a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal; a multiplexing section configured to multiplex one of the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal having been output, and output a super-channel optical signal; and a controller configured to generate and output, in a normal state, a control signal for making the client signal split into N pieces and outputting split signals to the N pieces of optical modulation sections, and applying the first modulation method to the N pieces of modulation sections, and in a state where a failure occurs in one of the subcarriers, a control signal for making the client signal split and a split signal output to a modulation section corresponding to a subcarrier having no failure, and applying the second modulation method to at least one of the modulation sections corresponding to the subcarrier having no failure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14155518', '14569015', '11154930', '15770584', '14586255']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6884304831162154
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5120337437332644
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6707908091779203
- Mean Citation Score: 226.71718
- Max Citation Score: 246.0847
- Similarity Product: 180.8554193960548

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

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