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 8):
The ground based subsystem of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a plurality of lasers, each of the lasers operable to emit a laser generated optical signal having a different peak wavelength within a specified optical wavelength range; and a plurality of electro-optical modulators (EOMs), each of the EOMs configured to receive a laser generated optical signal from a respective one of the plurality of lasers, receive a different data modulated RF carrier signal that has been modulated to carry data for at least one of a plurality of RF service downlink beams, and output a respective optical data signal; wherein the WDM multiplexer is also configured to receive the optical data signals output by the plurality of EOMs, and combine the plurality of optical data signals received from the plurality of EOMs with one another and with the one or more optical signals that are received from the one or more optical networks that are external to the satellite communication system into the wavelength division multiplexed optical signal, that after being amplified by the optical amplifier, is transmitted by the transmitter optics in the optical feeder uplink beam to the satellite 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): 0.7541125675442848
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5854091935950486
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7372422301493612
- Mean Citation Score: 440.61860400000006
- Max Citation Score: 470.2409
- Similarity Product: 405.160643987608

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