PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873755
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["398", "185000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to data communication system and methods. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide a communication interface that is configured to transfer data at high bandwidth using PAM format(s) over optical communication networks. In various embodiments, amplitude and phase of the optical wave are modulated. There are other embodiments as well.

Claim (Index 11):
An apparatus comprising:\n a communication device configured to transmit modulated optical signals, the device comprising:\n a driver configured to generate from incoming data, electrical signal pairs characterized by a non-zero phase difference; \n a pair of limiting amplifiers with adjustable output amplitudes configured to amplify the electrical signal pairs; and \n a modulator configured to generate a modulated optical signal based at least on a first electrical signal and a second electrical signal of the electrical signal pairs, wherein: \n the first electrical signal comprises a first nPAM signal, n being an even integer, \n the second electrical signal comprises a second nPAM signal, and \n the modulated optical signal comprises an (2n)PAM optical signal; \n wherein the communications device apparatus has a CSP4 form factor or a QSFP form factor; and \n a server coupled to the communication device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.40426
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15277014', '14615626', '13833415', '13791201', '15280873']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6294301298921516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4982966644445301
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6163167833473895
- Mean Citation Score: 202.768682
- Max Citation Score: 245.83006
- Similarity Product: 235.63735045525547

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

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