PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975688
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["398", "016000"]

Abstract:
In an example, the present invention includes an integrated system-on-chip device. The device is configured on a single silicon substrate member. The device has a data input/output interface provided on the substrate member. The device has an input/output block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the data input/output interface. The device has a signal processing block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the input/output block. The device has a driver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to the signal processing block. In an example, the device has a driver interface provided on the substrate member and coupled to the driver module and configured to be coupled to a silicon photonics device. In an example, a control block is configured to receive and send instruction(s) in a digital format to the communication block and is configured to receive and send signals in an analog format to communicate with the silicon photonics device.

Claim (Index 1):
An integrated system-on-chip photonics module for optical network, the module comprising:\n a substrate member made by silicon; a data input/output interface provided on the substrate member and configured for a predefined data rate and protocol; an input/output block provided on the substrate member and coupled or the data input/output interface, the input/output block comprising a SerDes block, a CDR block, a compensation block, and an equalizer block; a signal processing block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the input/output block, the signal processing block configured to the input/output block using a bi-direction bus in an intermediary protocol; a driver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to the signal processing block using a uni-directional multi-lane bus; a driver interface provided on the substrate member and coupled to the driver module and configured to be coupled to a silicon photonics device, the driver interface being configured to transmit output data in either an amplitude modulation format or a combination of phase/amplitude modulation format or a phase modulation format; a receiver module comprising a TIA block provided on the substrate member and to be coupled to the silicon photonics device using predefined modulation format, and configured to the signal processing block to communicate information to the input/output block for transmission through the data input/output interface; a laser coupled to the silicon photonics device; a communication block provided on the substrate member and operably coupled to the input/output block, the signal processing block, the driver block, and the receiver block; a communication interface coupled to the communication block; a control block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the communication block; and a self-test block provided on the substrate member, the self test block comprising a broad band source coupled to each of a TX multiplexer and a RX multiplexer associated with the silicon photonics device and a self test output configured to couple to an external spectrum analyzer, and being configured to receive a loop back signal from at least one of the digital signal processing block, the driver module, or the silicon photonics device under a loop back control based on locking individual wavelengths to N channels of an N-to-1 multiplexer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.35294
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15679008', '15406230', '15903910', '14323254', '14815824']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6877922544469306
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5465511678545105
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6736681457876886
- Mean Citation Score: 342.6965320000001
- Max Citation Score: 351.34177
- Similarity Product: 319.2571425017905

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

Dataset: test