PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16003051
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "116000"]

Abstract:
A device and method of optical equalization using an optical modulator is provided. An electrical modulation signal is split into a first modulation signal and a second modulation signal. The second modulation signal is delayed relative to the first modulation signal. An amplitude of the second modulation signal is attenuated relative to the first modulation signal. The first modulation signal is applied to a first waveguide segment of the optical modulator. The second modulation signal that is delayed and attenuated relative to the first modulation signal is applied to a second waveguide segment of the optical modulator. Both the applied first and second modulation signals generate a feed-forward equalized optical signal that is recombined in the optical domain.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical communication system, comprising:\n an optical modulator device including a first and a second waveguide segment, which is configured to modulate an incident optical signal; and a feed-forward equalization, circuit including a first tap and a second tap, wherein: the first tap is coupled to the first segment of the optical modulator, the second tap is coupled to the second segment of the optical modulator, the first tap is configured to generate a first modulation signal, the second tap is configured to generate a second modulation signal, the first modulation signal is attenuated relative to the second modulation signal, the first and the second modulation signals are time-delayed with respect to each other, the second tap comprises a plurality of paths, each path driving a corresponding segment of the second segment, and a recombination of the first tap and the second tap is in the optical domain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.04878
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15385409', '15385523', '15602657', '14413071', '12250651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6754300238626344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6101010917167553
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6688971306480465
- Mean Citation Score: 296.282302
- Max Citation Score: 448.4076
- Similarity Product: 441.96199412362574

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