PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16412111
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "072000"]

Abstract:
In an example, a communication module includes an optical transmitter, an optical receiver, and a periodical filter. The optical transmitter is configured to emit an outbound optical signal. The optical receiver is configured to receive an inbound optical signal. A first frequency of the outbound optical signal is offset from a second frequency of the inbound optical signal by an amount less than a channel spacing of a multiplexer/demultiplexer implemented in an optical communication system that includes the communication module. The periodical filter is positioned in optical paths of both the outbound optical signal and the inbound optical signal and has a transmission spectrum with periodic transmission peaks and troughs. The first frequency of the outbound optical signal may be aligned to one of the transmission peaks and the second frequency of the inbound optical signal may be aligned to one of the transmission troughs, or vice versa.

Claim (Index 8):
The communication module of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a tap splitter positioned in the optical path of the outbound optical signal to tap a portion of the outbound optical signal to redirect the portion of the outbound optical signal to a monitor optical path; a monitor photodiode positioned in the monitor optical path to receive the portion of the outbound optical signal and measure a power of the outbound optical signal; and a processor coupled to the optical transmitter, the optical receiver, and the periodical filter and configured to tune the periodical filter, monitor the measured power of the outbound optical signal, and monitor power of the inbound optical signal measured by the optical receiver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63333
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15465443', '15433904', '14873047', '11448339', '10889333']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6573997822129262
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6485873215514155
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6565185361467751
- Mean Citation Score: 308.284044
- Max Citation Score: 597.1075
- Similarity Product: 560.2780404751003

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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