PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15991762
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["398", "115000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method for decoding a combined AM/FM encoded signal, comprising the steps of: combining said encoded optical signal with light from a local oscillator configured with a local oscillator frequency; converting the combined local oscillator and encoded optical signal into one or more electrical signals by means of at least one opto-electrical converter having a predefined frequency bandwidth, thereby providing an amplified and encoded electrical signal having one or more encoded signal current(s), where one type of states have a higher oscillation frequency than other type of states; rectifying the encoded signal current(s), thereby obtaining an encoded power spectrum, wherein said power spectrum has different states, such as “0”-states and “1”-states, with different power levels such that they can be discriminated, said local oscillator frequency is defined by a positive local oscillator frequency-offset from the frequency of one of the states in said encoded optical signal, and said local oscillator frequency-offset is selected to be dependent on said frequency bandwidth.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for decoding an encoded optical signal comprising at least two different states, such as \u201c0\u201d-states and \u201c1\u201d-states, the optical signal being frequency and amplitude modulated such that the different states are separated in frequency and amplitude, the method comprising the steps of:\n combining said encoded optical signal with light from a local oscillator configured with a local oscillator frequency; converting the combined local oscillator and encoded optical signal into one or more electrical signals by means of at least one opto-electrical converter having a predefined frequency bandwidth, thereby providing an amplified and encoded electrical signal having one or more encoded signal current(s), where one type of states have a higher oscillation frequency than other type of states; rectifying the encoded signal current(s), thereby obtaining an encoded power spectrum, wherein said power spectrum has different states, such as \u201c0\u201d-states and \u201c1\u201d-states, with different power levels such that they can be discriminated, said local oscillator frequency is defined by a positive local oscillator frequency-offset from the frequency of one of the states in said encoded optical signal, and\n said local oscillator frequency-offset is selected to be dependent on said frequency bandwidth.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06522
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15117048', '15927792', '11402511', '16307253', '11068032']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6233991881524649
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6879117055369488
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6298504398909133
- Mean Citation Score: 306.563886
- Max Citation Score: 660.9378
- Similarity Product: 658.0486128241183

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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