US Patent 11228367 Communication device and communication method

A communication device used in an optical communication system, the communication device includes a mode change over device configured to switch between a learning mode for learning a normal state of an optical transmission path before operation and a monitoring mode for monitoring a state of the optical transmission path during operation, an anomaly detector configured to detect an anomaly of the optical transmission path using a prediction model determined by the learning mode when the monitoring mode is selected, and a data writer configured to extract waveform data including information related to the anomaly to output the extracted waveform data to an outside when the anomaly is detected.