PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870219
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["398", "188000"]

Abstract:
An optical signal modulator comprising a modulator unit, a photodetector and an electrical signal combiner. The modular unit having an optical ingress port for optical radiation, a first and second optical output port each for modulated optical radiation, and an electrical ingress port for an electrical modulation signal. The optical radiation is modulated in response to the electrical modulation signal. The photodetector is connected to the second optical output port and configured to measure the modulated optical radiation that is emitted, and to provide a monitor signal. The electrical signal combiner having a first input port for an external electrical data signal, a second electrical input port for a correction signal based on the monitor signal, and an electrical output port that is connected to the electrical ingress port. The combiner generates the electrical modulation signal by combining the external electrical data signal and the correction signal.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for generating an optical data signal based on an external electrical data signal, comprising the steps of\n modulating optical radiation by applying an electrical modulation signal to an electrical ingress port of a modulator unit, said modulator unit emitting said optical data signal at a first optical output port of the modulator unit, measuring the modulated optical radiation that is emitted at a second optical output of the modulator unit and providing a monitor signal, and electrically combining a correction signal that is based on the monitor signal, and said external electrical data signal and thereby forming said electrical modulation signal, wherein the bit duration of the external electrical data signal is chosen to fulfill the following condition:\n TB> 4* Tp , and \n wherein TB describes the bit length of the external electrical data signal and Tp describes the travel time in the monitor signal path from the output of the combiner unit to the second electrical input port of the combiner unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.3125
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14732041', '15483553', '13597487', '12250651', '11556278']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6524816841762351
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5221086791464481
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6394443836732564
- Mean Citation Score: 260.2716
- Max Citation Score: 270.09644
- Similarity Product: 213.11801369477269

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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