PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16168658
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["398", "096000"]

Abstract:
Described herein is a ground based subsystem for inclusion in an optical gateway and for use in transmitting an optical feeder uplink beam to a satellite. The subsystem can include a wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) multiplexer configured to receive optical data signals from optical network(s) external to the ground based optical gateway, and configured to combine the optical data signals into a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal. The subsystem can also include an optical amplifier to amplify the wavelength division multiplexed optical signal, and transmitter optics to receive the amplified wavelength division multiplexed optical signal and transmit an optical feeder uplink beam to the satellite in dependence thereon. In certain embodiments, the ground based optical gateway does not perform any modulation or demodulation of the optical data signals received from the optical network(s) external to the ground based optical gateway before they are provided to the WDM multiplexer.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for enabling a ground based optical gateway to produce and transmit an optical feeder uplink beam to a satellite that is configured to receive the optical feeder uplink beam, wherein the ground based optical gateway and the satellite are parts of a satellite communication system, the method for use by the ground based optical gateway comprising:\n receiving one or more optical signals from one or more optical networks that are external to the satellite communication system; multiplexing the one or more optical signals, received from the one or more optical networks that are external to the satellite communication system, to thereby produce a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal; producing an optical feeder uplink beam, in dependence on the wavelength division multiplexed optical signal; and transmitting the optical feeder uplink beam through free-space to the satellite of the satellite communication system; wherein the ground based optical gateway of the satellite communication system does not perform any modulation of, and does not perform any demodulation of, the one or more optical signals that are received from the one or more optical networks that are external to the satellite communication system before they are multiplexed to produce the wavelength division multiplexed optical signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15461381', '15461369', '15461372', '15394602', '15394512']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7529224593093917
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5888366539658719
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7365138787750397
- Mean Citation Score: 440.61860400000006
- Max Citation Score: 470.2409
- Similarity Product: 426.9197615603924

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

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