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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085816 | Regenerator unit A communication system comprises a central unit configured to transmit and receive communication signals; a remote unit configured to transmit and receive communication signals; and a regenerator unit configured to regenerate and transmit received communication sign... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073134 | Function for controlling line powered network element A network element comprises a power interface to receive power from a power communication medium; a service interface to provide a telecommunication service over a service communication medium; management interface to receive management data over one of the service ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8004854 | Electrical noise protection Embodiments of the present invention provide an electronic device. The electronic device includes a circuit board. A first circuit is disposed on a first side of the circuit board. The first circuit is connected to a first ground plane of the circuit board. A second... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7953108 | Media converter A method of using a digital subscriber link unit as a media converter, the method comprising coupling a first signal of a first type to a first port of the digital subscriber link unit, converting the first signal of the first type to a second signal of the second t... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7872985 | System for multi-frame alignment A bidirectional communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a host and a plurality of remote units, wherein a plurality of tones is shared among the plurality of remote units in order to communicate with the host using orthogonal frequenc... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7872881 | Secondary regulation in a multiple output flyback topology In one embodiment, a power supply includes a flyback transformer having a primary winding and at least two secondary windings. An output voltage is developed across a first one of the secondary windings. The power supply includes a transistor coupled to the first on... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869465 | Hybrid cross-link A communication system comprises a first communication unit having a plurality of application ports; and a second communication unit having a plurality of application ports and coupled to the first communication unit; wherein the first communication unit is configur... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869464 | Cross-link A communication network comprises a first digital subscriber line (DSL) unit having a plurality of application ports and at least one DSL port; and a second DSL unit having a plurality of application ports and at least one DSL port; wherein the first DSL unit is com... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864667 | One-good-pair operation in dual-pair mode A communication system comprising at least one communication unit. Each communication unit includes an interface port, a first-digital-subscriber-line port, a second-digital-subscriber-line port, and a central processing unit. The central processing unit is communic... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856036 | Point to multipoint crosslink A communication network comprises a first central digital subscriber line (DSL) unit having at least one application port and a plurality of DSL ports; a first remote DSL unit having at least one application port and at least one DSL port, wherein the first remote D... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7839662 | Power supply having a flyback topology and current sense transformer A power supply having a flyback topology includes a flyback transformer and a current sense circuit that outputs a current signal indicative of a current output by the power supply. The current sense circuit includes a current sense transformer coupled to the flybac... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7725896 | Periodic event execution control mechanism A scheduler schedules a plurality of periodic events. Each periodic event has an associated periodic interval of time and an associated set of services. The scheduler determines when one of the plurality of periodic events occurs and distributes the execution of the... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7668230 | Non-intrusive digital subscriber line transmit adjustment method In one embodiment, a first device for communicating over a digital-subscriber-line (DSL) line comprises a digital-subscriber-line transceiver to transmit and receive data over the DSL link. A set of one or more performance parameters are associated with the DSL link... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7633757 | Mechanical housing An apparatus for containing objects, such as electronic circuit cards, and a method for making the same, the apparatus having a housing; at least one case disposed within the housing, the case adapted to confine the objects to different locations within the housing ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7611402 | Apparatus for cooling electronics An apparatus for guiding air through electronic components is disclosed. The apparatus has an intake, a transition portion, and a focused egress. The transition portion is connected to the intake and defines a channel. The channel has a generally ‘u’ shaped cros... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7599484 | Element management system for managing line-powered network elements A method of managing power at an element management system for a power sourcing network element and a power sinking network element of an access network is provided. The method includes identifying a set of primitives for managing power usage at the power sinking ne... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7575480 | Crossbar cable including encasing wrap A crossbar cable to connect a crossbar switch with a plurality of outputs comprises a switch connector, a plurality of cables, a plurality of device connectors, and an encasing wrap. The switch connector comprises a plurality of sockets. Each cable has wires connect... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7570688 | Non-chronological system statistics A communications device apparatus and method is detailed that allows for improved system statistics gathering of network communication links, dataports, and system status. The improved communications device apparatus and method utilizes a relative time reference or ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7569772 | Cable management system An apparatus for managing cables and configured to attach to a side of an electronic device is disclosed. The apparatus has a first planar member which has a plurality of attach points that match a plurality of attach points on an electronic device. The first planar... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7567665 | Function for controlling line powered network element A method of controlling power in a network element includes powering the network element by receiving power from a power communication medium and providing a telecommunication service over a service communication medium. The method further includes monitoring a prim... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7539758 | Method and system for triggering an automatic log-off of data link layer pass-through application A communication system includes a local unit that has a lower data link layer and a session layer running a data pass-through application and a user interface. The data pass-through application lets the data link layer in the local unit pass data through to a remote... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7526002 | Concurrent transmission of traffic from multiple communication interfaces Line termination units having dual ports for accepting communication traffic of two different types facilitate the concurrent transmission of voice traffic, serial data traffic and packetized data traffic across a telecommunication transport system, such as a DSL (d... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525979 | Network interface device having improved thermal properties A network interface device is provided. The network interface device comprises an enclosure having a first portion coupled to a second portion wherein the first portion and second portion have cavities. The network interface device further comprises a removable case... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525961 | Auto-adaptation to packet size on a physical medium A method for automatically adapting to statically varying packet size is provided. The method includes receiving a stream of bytes over a physical medium. A packet size is determined from the bytes in the stream of bytes. Further, the determined packet size is used ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7512142 | Managing a finite queue A source process communicates with a sink process by writing messages to a finite queue. The source process determines whether the finite queue is full. If the source process determines that the finite queue is full, the finite queue is emptied and a refresh-all mes... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7480367 | Fault characterization using information indicative of echo A fault associated with a communication medium is analyzed by correlating a first set of information indicative of echo associated with the communication medium with a second set of information indicative of echo. The fault is characterized based on the correlation ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7456522 | Line powering of auxiliary equipment An electronics module for powering auxiliary equipment by using power from a line powered remote unit is provided. The electronics module includes one or more current and inrush limiting control circuits, one or more turn on control circuits, and a voltage control s... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454012 | Managing power in a line powered network element A system for managing power from a power source for at least one line powered network element in an access network is provided. The system includes a power manager that establishes at least one power criterion for the at least one network element. Further, the syste... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7443789 | Protection switching mechanism A system and method for protection switching in a transmission network is described. A protection switching mechanism comprises a multiplexer, a transmission path for each output of the multiplexer and a remote circuit. The multiplexer has an input coupled to receiv... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443308 | Enhanced AC immunity in ground fault detection A method for reducing the occurrence of false ground fault detections in a central office terminal is provided. The method includes generating a no-fault signal when no ground current is detected, delaying generation of a fault signal when ground current is detected... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436161 | Circuit and method for reducing the size and cost of switch mode power supplies An improved circuit and method for decreasing the size and cost of switch mode power supplies is disclosed. In one illustrative example, a feedback circuit for a switch mode power supply is disclosed that includes two error amplifiers. The input of a first error amp... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433165 | Auto-resetting span-power protection Systems and methods for auto-resetting span power protection are provided. In one embodiment, a method for deactivating a protective device is provided. The method comprises determining when an overload condition occurs on a communication medium; when the overload c... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7385991 | Ingress cell processing at a user-network interface A method for processing cells at a user-network interface with automatic identification of virtual circuit identifiers and a testing function is provided. The method includes distinguishing the source of the cell. When the cell is from a first source, the method tes... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7352946 | Fiber sub-system for a shelf A fiber sub-system is provided. The fiber sub-system comprises a fiber optic transmission module, one or more contact boards adapted to couple to shelf interface connectors, and a midplane adapted to couple with the one or more contact boards and the fiber optic tra... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340051 | Power ramp-up in a line-powered network element system A method of ramping up a power supply that supplies power on a communication medium. The method includes supplying power on the communication medium with the power supply operating at a first set point, determining if an overload condition exists, and, if the overlo... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330423 | High-speed digital subscriber line (HDSL) packet abort retry during channel blocking An apparatus and method is described that allows for improved transmission of EOC data over the EOC channels of communication devices and links, reducing the number of dropped EOC packets and increasing the bandwidth and robustness of the EOC channel. The improved d... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330543 | Termination for a line card in a telecommunication system A system of terminating signals in a telecommunication system is disclosed. In one embodiment a line card comprises functional circuitry, line card connector contacts and a termination resistor. The functional circuitry is used to interface first type ports with sec... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7299285 | Resource sharing with database synchronization A system uses a resource locking token to allow various processes to have exclusive access to a system resource. The process that receives the token then requests that a local database be updated/synchronized with a master database. The process continues checking th... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298121 | Circuit and method for increasing the stability of switch-mode power supplies An improved circuit and method for increasing the stability of switch-mode power supplies via frequency fold-back is disclosed. For example, a circuit for increasing the stability of a switch-mode power supply using the compensation signal to control the frequency o... | 11/20/2007 |
| D553105 | Housing for fiber sub-system | 10/16/2007 |
