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 1):
A ground based subsystem for inclusion in an optical gateway of a satellite communication system and for use in transmitting an optical feeder uplink beam to a satellite of the satellite communication system that is configured to receive the optical feeder uplink beam, the ground based subsystem comprising:\n a wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) multiplexer configured to receive one or more optical signals from one or more optical networks that are external to the satellite communication system, and combine the one or more optical signals into a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal; an optical amplifier configured to amplify the wavelength division multiplexed optical signal to thereby produce an optically amplified wavelength division multiplexed optical signal; and transmitter optics configured to receive the optically amplified wavelength division multiplexed optical signal and transmit an optical feeder uplink beam to the satellite in dependence thereon; wherein the ground based optical gateway 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 the one or more optical signals are provided to the WDM multiplexer of the ground based subsystem included in the ground based optical gateway of the satellite communication system.

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): 0.7521529762542927
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5910423645215815
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7360419150810216
- Mean Citation Score: 440.61860400000006
- Max Citation Score: 470.2409
- Similarity Product: 440.95124198673966

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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