PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973829
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["398", "079000"]

Abstract:
An optical network element for a hardware configured optical network includes a first optical port that receives an input optical signal comprising receive control information from the hardware configured optical network. A demodulator optically coupled to the first optical port decodes the receive control information for configuring the optical network element. A modulator having an electrical modulation input that receives transmit control information imparts a modulation onto an optical carrier thereby generating a transmit optical control signal representing the transmit control information. A second optical port transmits the transmit optical control signal representing the transmit control information to the hardware configured optical network.

Claim (Index 66):
A transceiver for a hardware configured optical network, the transceiver comprising:\n a) a first optical port that receives an input optical signal from the hardware configured network, the input optical signal comprising client data traffic on a receive optical carrier and receive control information for configuring an optical network element encoded as a modulation on the receive optical carrier having a frequency that is less than a modulation frequency of the client data traffic; b) a receiver having an input that is optically coupled to the first optical port, the receiver decoding the receive control information for configuring the optical network element and receiving the client data traffic; c) a tunable laser that generates an optical signal at an output, the optical signal having an optical carrier with a wavelength; d) a modulator having an input that is optically coupled to the output of the tunable laser, the modulator imparting modulation directly onto the optical transmit signal with the frequency that is less than the modulation frequency of a transmit client data traffic, the modulator thereby generating a transmit optical control signal that represents transmit control information having the wavelength of the optical carrier; and e) a second optical port that transmits the transmit optical control signal representing the transmit control information to the hardware configured optical network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48837
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14717958', '12767921', '13029095', '14312930', '12623711']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6601215435164606
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5218661542936873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6462960045941832
- Mean Citation Score: 193.025192
- Max Citation Score: 302.28152
- Similarity Product: 253.39673945324407

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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