PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970485
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["398", "159000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to be operatively coupled to a first optical transponder and a second optical transponder. The processor is configured to receive, from the second optical transponder, a signal representing a skew value of an optical signal and a signal representing a bit-error-rate (BER) value of the optical signal. The skew value is associated with a skew between an in-phase component of the optical signal and a quadrature component of the optical signal. The processor is configured to determine, based on at least one of the skew value or the BER value, if a performance degradation of the first optical transponder satisfies a threshold. The processor is configured to send a control signal to the first optical transponder to adjust a pulse shaping or a data baud rate of the first optical transponder.

Claim (Index 9):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein:\n the transmitter channel is a first transmitter channel; and the processor is configured to send a fourth control signal to the first optical transponder to: adjust, based on the performance degradation, a modulation format of a second transmitter channel from the plurality of transmitter channels of the first optical transponder from a first modulation format to a second modulation format, and not adjust a modulation format of a third transmitter channel from the plurality of transmitter channels and a modulation format of a fourth transmitter channel from the plurality of transmitter channels from the first modulation format to the second modulation format, the first modulation format being different from the second modulation format.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68852
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12026545', '15149667', '13912138', '15965326', '15394280']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6630267571823621
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5328153666148531
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6500056181256112
- Mean Citation Score: 227.368018
- Max Citation Score: 239.77293
- Similarity Product: 146.678676251083

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

Dataset: test