PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16008713
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["398", "016000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to send a stimulus signal at a frequency that corresponds to a first frequency value to a tributary channel of a coherent optical transponder. The processor is configured to adjust an amplitude of the stimulus signal and receive a first plurality of output optical power values. The processor is configured to adjust the frequency of the stimulus signal and receive a second plurality of output optical power values. The processor is configured to determine a bandwidth limitation and a modulation nonlinearity, and then send a first signal to a first filter to reduce the bandwidth limitation and a second signal to a second filter to reduce the modulation nonlinearity.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a memory configured to store a stimulus signal having a plurality of amplitude values and a plurality of frequency values; and a processor operatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to:\n send the stimulus signal at a frequency that corresponds to a first frequency value from the plurality of frequency values to a tributary channel from a set of tributary channels of a coherent optical transponder, \n adjust an amplitude of the stimulus signal between a first amplitude value and a second amplitude value, the plurality of amplitude values including the first amplitude value and the second amplitude value, \n receive a first plurality of output optical power values in response to the amplitude of the stimulus signal adjusting between the first amplitude value and the second amplitude value, \n adjust the frequency of the stimulus signal between a second frequency value and a third frequency value, the plurality of frequency values including the second frequency value and the third frequency value, \n receive a second plurality of output optical power values in response to the frequency of the stimulus signal adjusting between the second frequency value and the third frequency value, \n determine, based on the first plurality of output optical power values and the second plurality of output optical power values, a bandwidth limitation associated with the tributary channel of the coherent optical transponder and a modulation nonlinearity associated with the tributary channel of the coherent optical transponder, \n send a first signal to a first filter of the coherent optical transponder to reduce the bandwidth limitation associated with the tributary channel, and \n send a second signal to a second filter of the coherent optical transponder to reduce the modulation nonlinearity associated with the tributary channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15970485', '15394280', '15965326', '15149667', '15858364']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6825515807209599
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5245245029635848
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6667488729452224
- Mean Citation Score: 250.34602200000003
- Max Citation Score: 300.36502
- Similarity Product: 243.9903270516944

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

Dataset: test