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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085928 | Isolating an inactive cable pair from a bridged active cable pair Apparatus and methods provide for the isolation of an inactive cable pair from a bridged active cable pair. According to various embodiments, a bridge lifting block is installed in-line between control equipment and a cable connected to the bridged cable pairs. The ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7539298 | Passive termination for redundant telecommunication receivers connected to a single twisted pair A wireline termination arrangement bridges a telecommunication wireline pair of a telecommunication system equipment backplane with a termination resistor. The backplane adjoins a plurality of card slots. A first end of the termination resistor installed in the back... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7439446 | Cable-routing device The invention relates to a cable-routing device including links that are open at the ends, joined together in pivoting fashion and can be angled-relative to each other in at least two directions, said links being arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal dir... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7386116 | Quick shift jack panel A method and system for coupling a second wire pair to a communications service are disclosed. The system includes a first connector for receiving an electrical connection to a first wire pair. The first wire pair provides a communication service to a customer locat... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7362590 | Patch panel with modules A patch panel includes a back plane having front mounted pairs of termination locations, and an interconnect location electrically connected to each pair of termination locations. The termination locations connect to two patch cords. The interconnect location define... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346158 | Method and system for wiring a digital subscriber line circuit A method and system are provided for wiring a digital subscriber line circuit between a customer premises and a central office. A first connection for a first cable pair is established between the customer premises and a distribution frame in the central office. The... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7330546 | Multimedia patching box A multimedia patching box including a generally rectangular housing. The housing includes a first wall positioned opposite from a second wall. The housing also includes opposing third and fourth walls that extend between the first and second walls. A panel is mounte... | 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 |
| 7327839 | Cables, systems and methods for wiring a structure for telephone service A method for wiring an architectural structure for telephone service includes providing a cable. The cable includes a sheath and first and second pairs of conductor members. The sheath includes first and second longitudinally extending sheath passages and a partitio... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7217152 | Patch panel with tracer Embodiments of a patch panel with tracer are presented herein. In an implementation, an apparatus includes one or more jacks, each being associable with a cable having signal conductors. At least one of the signal conductors is configured to communicate a signal bet... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7200929 | Patch panel with modules A patch panel includes a back plane having front mounted pairs of termination locations, and an interconnect location electrically connected to each pair of termination locations. The termination locations connect to two patch cords. The interconnect location define... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7194082 | Local number portability cross connect switch network A cross-connect switch (16) for implementing local number portability between a current local service provider originating switch (14) and a desired local service provider ported switch (18). The cross-connect switch (16) is connected in ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7161377 | Bus type connection system in particular for backplanes The invention relates to bus type connection systems, in particular those for wiring backplanes of electronic systems, when the bus comprises connectors distributed in an irregular manner. It consists in selecting segments (D1, D2) over which t... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7136481 | Quick shift jack panel A cable pair shifting system (12) for shifting a cable pair (20) from an old cable pair location to a new cable pair location and method for the same are provided including a quick shift jack panel (64). The quick shift jack panel (64) co... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7110527 | Housing for telecommunications equipment A telecommunications equipment mounting assembly is disclosed herein. The assembly includes a housing adapted for holding telecommunications equipment such as an optical-to-electrical and electrical-to-optical converter modules. The telecommunications equipment moun... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7095844 | High density DSX system A DSX system arranged to receive a plurality of high-density chassis is disclosed. The chassis include back planes having rear access IN/OUT fields and rear access cross-connect fields. The rear access fields are electrically connected to termination panels located ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7058174 | System and method for providing lifeline power service to digital subscriber line customers A system and method that provides lifeline service to DSL customers when a loss-of-power message is sent to the central office from an integrated access device on the customer premise. If a predetermined number of loss-of-power messages are received then power is pr... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050571 | Telephone wire distribution center A telephone distribution center for organizing, labeling, and coupling multiple paired input telephone wires to multiple output telephone wires. Paired input lines can be coupled to respective pairs of punch down terminal strips. Each punch down terminal strip is an... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039374 | Transmitting and amplifying unit for wireless communication device A transmitting and amplifying unit for a wireless communication device. The transmitting and amplifying unit includes a C-shaped frame having an upper plate having a first cutout, a lower plate having a second cutout aligned with the first cutout, and a side plate c... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7021951 | Self-normalling jack with magnetically controlled normal circuit or relay A self-normalling jack with a magnetically controlled normal circuit, switch or relay comprising a pair of receptacles having a sensing means for sensing the insertion of a plug, the sensing means in communication with an electronic normalling circuit, switch or rel... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7005763 | Reconfigurable signal distribution system The invention provides a modular distribution system having central distribution panel for receiving a plurality of services at an input and having a plurality of outputs each connected to an outlet at a remote location. A central region is provided in the central d... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6990192 | Combination telephone network interface device and cable TV splitter A telephone and cable television network interface device includes a first housing having first and second compartments, a terminal located in the first compartment for connection to telephone service, a terminal, located in the second compartment for connection to ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6847716 | Quick shift jack panel A cable pair shifting system (12) for shifting a cable pair (20) from an old cable pair location to a new cable pair location includes a quick shift jack panel (64). The quick shift jack panel (64) contains an old pair of connection locat... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6827582 | Connector block having an isolation circuit A connector block having an alarm-isolation circuit includes a first alarm input terminal, a second alarm input terminal, a first alarm output terminal, a second alarm output terminal, and at least one diode. The first and second alarm input terminals are operable f... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6823063 | Cross-connect module and mount The present invention relates to telecommunications equipment racks including vertical cable guides, horizontal troughs, cross aisle panels and cross-connection modules for telecommunications equipment racks. The vertical cable guides define vertical cable channels ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6782097 | Splitter device for MDU/MTU environments A front access splitter assembly that fully supports lifeline POTS and lifeline ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) service requirements is shown and described in this disclosure. ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6738463 | Splitter assembly with inverted pots and line connectors A telecommunications device including a plurality of splitter cards mounted within a chassis. The device also includes a circuit board and a plurality of card edge connectors for providing electrical connections between the splitter cards and the circuit board. The ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6728364 | Analog phone bank connector A connector and associated method for interconnecting a plurality of adjacent paired wire terminations on a standard 110 style punch down wiring block for a telephone system. The connector includes two isolated conductors disposed along the length of the connector b... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6688910 | System and method for automatic addressing of devices in a dedicated telecommunications system The present invention provides for automatic addressing of devices on a rack controller bus. As each tracing interface module in a rack is powered up, the device identifies its electronic serial number (ESN) to the rack controller via the rack controller ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6654460 | High-density telecommunication drawer assembly A high-density pull-out drawer assembly for telecommunications wiring includes a support frame and one or more pull-out drawers. Each pull-out drawer includes a series of fuse protection blocks for receiving removable fuses, and a series of terminal pin b... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6535602 | Telecommunications wiring device The present invention relates to relates to electrical connectors, and in particular to a connector that replaces industry standard "punch down block" wiring devices to eliminate the need for rewiring when changing or re-routing multiple phone lines at a ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6424710 | Method and device for detecting the presence of a patch cord connector in a telecommunications patch system using passive detection sensors A patch cord tracing system for tracing patch cords in a telecommunications patching system. The system includes a plurality of tracing interface modules that attach to the patch panels in a telecommunications closet. On the patch panels in a telecommunic... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6154536 | Order wire accommodation system for interoffice communications An order wire accommodation system comprises four interface boxes each of which has the same order wire interface section as the others. The order wire interface section has a circuit which digitally adds order wire signals of the transmission lines from ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6035032 | Multi-layered foldable cross connect field A foldable wire distribution field is provided whereby a non-connectorized double sided wire distribution field is hingeably connected and foldable over a standard feeder/protector field to eliminate the need for adjacent feeder fields and distribution fi... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5995617 | Connector block mountable connector and telephone circuit Connector including a housing including a resilient portion provided with a cavity, connectors mounted in the cavity, the resilient portion deformable to increase access to the cavity to facilitate insertion and mounting of the connectors in the cavity, t... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5945633 | Rack mountable cable distribution enclosure having an angled adapter plate bracket A rack mountable cable distribution enclosure. The cable distribution enclosure includes a tray that slides forwards and backwards out of the cable distribution enclosure. The tray incudes an adapter plate bracket which receives a plurality of adapter pla... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5946389 | Cabling for buildings In buildings, structured cabling is frequently installed, in which outlet boxes are connected in a star-like pattern to a central distribution panel. So that a service-neutral cabling of this kind can be used for the connection of an ISDN bus, a bus panel... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5926540 | Rack with circuit pack cable adapter and method of operation thereof For use with a rack having a carrier backplane and capable of receiving modular circuit packs therein to be coupled to the carrier backplane, a circuit pack cable adapter that allows the modular circuit packs additionally to process signals originating fr... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5903438 | Enclosure for electrical switching equipment Enclosure for electrical switching equipment including electrical control or display devices (21) supported on a wall (23) of the enclosure, being accessible from the outside, a processing or control unit (20) for these devices which is housed inside the ... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5898129 | Rack mountable cable distribution enclosure A rack mountable cable distribution enclosure. The cable distribution enclosure includes a tray that slides forwards and backwards out of the cable distribution enclosure. The tray includes an adapter plate bracket which receives a plurality of adapter pl... | 04/27/1999 |
