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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Applicants:
Kimon Papakos, Evanston, IL (US);
Mark E. Boduch, Geneva, IL (US);
Inventors:
Kimon Papakos, Evanston, IL (US);
Mark E. Boduch, Geneva, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/08 (2006.01); H04J 14/02 (2006.01); H04B 10/07 (2013.01); H04B 10/077 (2013.01); H04B 10/572 (2013.01); H04B 10/079 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/021 (2013.01); H04B 10/07 (2013.01); H04B 10/0773 (2013.01); H04B 10/0775 (2013.01); H04B 10/079 (2013.01); H04B 10/07953 (2013.01); H04B 10/572 (2013.01);
Abstract
Example embodiments and methods of the present invention relate to utilizing optical transmitters and optical receivers embedded within reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers of optical nodes to identify problematic optical spans within an optical network.