PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16265777
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "072000"]

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices for network communications to reduce optical beat interference (OBI) in upstream communications are described. For example, a fiber node may provide a seed source to injection lock upstream laser diodes. Therefore, upstream communications from each injection locked laser diode may primarily include the wavelength associated with each seed source. The seed sources may be unique to each end device and configured to minimize OBI. That is, the upstream laser diodes may be generic, but the collected seed source may enable upstream communications at varying wavelengths. The end device may provide upstream communications by externally modulating a signal generated by the injection locked laser diode.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a second optical circulator disposed between the laser diode and the external modulator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8209
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15861303', '15283632', '12445935', '10638842', '14236071']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6762028905315048
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5196206301806705
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6605446644964215
- Mean Citation Score: 227.785732
- Max Citation Score: 273.23914
- Similarity Product: 205.6767017383576

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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