PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16155624
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["398", "043000"]

Abstract:
Consistent with an aspect of the present disclosure, electrical signals or digital subcarriers are generated in a DSP based on independent input data streams. Drive signals are generated based on the digital subcarriers, and such drive signals are applied to an optical modulator, including, for example, a Mach-Zehnder modulator. The optical modulator modulates light output from a laser based on the drive signals to supply optical subcarriers corresponding to the digital subcarriers. These optical subcarriers may be received by optical receivers provided at different locations in an optical communications network, where the optical subcarrier may be processed, and the input data stream associated with such optical subcarrier is output. Accordingly, instead of providing multiple lasers and modulators, for example, data is carried by individual subcarriers output from an optical source including one laser and modulator. Thus, a cost associated with the network may be reduced. Moreover, each of the subcarriers may be detected by a corresponding one of a plurality of receivers, each of which being provided in a different location in the optical communication network. Thus, receivers need not be co-located, such that the network has improved flexibility.

Claim (Index 14):
A system in accordance with  claim 11 , wherein the first one of the plurality of Nyquist subcarriers carries first data with a first data rate and the second one of the plurality of Nyquist subcarriers carries second data with a second data rate different than the first data rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30435
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14986521', '12897787', '13927901', '13078888', '12691474']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6876603227216062
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5121904552817331
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6701133359776189
- Mean Citation Score: 184.675228
- Max Citation Score: 206.23642
- Similarity Product: 138.03930123090626

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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