PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15781560
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["385", "024000"]

Abstract:
In the examples provided herein, a system includes an input waveguide, where a first end of the input waveguide is coupled to a light-emitting optical transmitter to allow the emitted light to enter the input waveguide, and a first ring resonator tunable to be resonant at a first resonant wavelength, wherein the first ring resonator is positioned near the input waveguide to couple a light at the first resonant wavelength from the input waveguide to the first ring resonator. The system also has a bus waveguide positioned to couple the light at the first resonant wavelength in the first ring resonator to the bus waveguide, and a mechanism to wavelength-tune the first ring resonator to a particular wavelength.

Claim (Index 9):
A multiplexing method comprising:\n tuning a first ring resonator of a plurality of ring resonators to multiplex a first optical signal at a first wavelength channel in a first input waveguide at a first node to a first bus waveguide,\n wherein the tuned first ring resonator is positioned to couple the first optical signal from the first input waveguide to the first ring resonator, and the first ring resonator is also positioned to couple the first optical signal from the first ring resonator to the first bus waveguide, and \n wherein an end of the first bus waveguide is coupled via an optical waveguide to an input port of a plurality of input ports of a first arrayed waveguide grating (AWG), \n wherein the first optical signal is routed to a first output port of a plurality of output ports of the first AWG based on the first wavelength channel and is transmitted via an optical waveguide to a second bus waveguide in a second node; and \n detuning the other ring resonators of the plurality of ring resonators to prevent multiplexing other optical signals in other input waveguides at the first node to the first bus waveguide,\n wherein each of the other ring resonators tuned to a corresponding respective ring resonator's resonant wavelength is positioned to couple one of the other optical signals from one of the other input waveguides via the respective other ring resonator, and to couple the one of the other optical signals to the first bus waveguide via the respective other ring resonator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60417
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15781531', '14529740', '15486088', '11391262', '13575602']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7878920656749799
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4916913315483556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7582719922623176
- Mean Citation Score: 240.24052200000003
- Max Citation Score: 249.12094
- Similarity Product: 210.8657100128221

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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