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Automatically testing telephone lines

Patent 5073919 Issued on December 17, 1991. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject October 10, 2010. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

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Application

No. 595246 filed on 10/10/1990

US Classes:

379/29.01, Terminal arrangement to enable remote testing (e.g., testing interface)379/24, Electrical parameter measurement (e.g., attenuation)379/27.02, By generating call signal379/30Loop impedance (e.g., resistance, capacitance)

Examiners

Primary: Schreyer, Stafford D.

International Classes

H04M 001/24
H04B 003/46

Abstract

A method of testing a telephone line including installing a test call unit at an end of the telephone line at which a customer's equipment is connected, automatically initiating a telephone line test at the module, performing the telephone line test, and transmitting the results of the line test over the telephone line.

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