PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870311
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["398", "011000"]

Abstract:
A system and method consistent with the present disclosure provides for automated line monitoring system (LMS) baselining that enables capturing and updating of operational parameters specific to each repeater and associated undersea elements based on high loss loopback (HLLB) data. The captured operational parameters may then be utilized to satisfy queries targeting specific undersea elements in a Command-Response (CR) fashion. Therefore, command-response functionality may be achieved without the added cost, complexity and lifespan issues related to deploying undersea elements with on-board CR circuitry. As generally referred to herein, operational parameters include any parameter that may be derived directly or indirectly from HLLB data. Some example non-limiting examples of operational parameters include span gain loss, input power, output power, gain, and gain tilt.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical communication system comprising:\n an optical transmission path;\n a plurality of repeaters coupled to the optical transmission path, each of the plurality of repeaters comprising a high loss loopback (HLLB) path; \n first line monitoring equipment (LME) coupled to a first end of the transmission path, the first LME being configured to transmit first LME test signals on the optical transmission path and receive a first LME loopback data from the optical transmission path in response to the first LME test signals, the first LME loopback data comprising a peak associated with a location of each of the HLLB paths on the transmission path; \n a controller coupled to the first LME, the controller to:\n generate a plurality of operational parameters based on the first LME loopback data, each of the operational parameters corresponding to a repeater of the plurality of repeaters, wherein each of the plurality of operational parameters are stored in a lookup table in a memory, the lookup table associating each of the plurality of repeaters with corresponding operational parameters; \n select one or more repeaters of the plurality of repeaters; and \n send a reporting message to a remote computer, the reporting message including a representation of one or more operational parameters of the plurality of operational parameters associated with each of the selected repeaters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53846
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13754344', '11829422', '13303810', '12029151', '12146811']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6640681020910097
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5065352527998601
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6483148171618948
- Mean Citation Score: 194.263274
- Max Citation Score: 246.34534
- Similarity Product: 198.509734684546

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

Dataset: test