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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2016
Applicant:
Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Inventors:
Fred Odendaal, Stittsville, CA;
Jean Labonte, Gatineau, CA;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/15 (2013.01); H04L 69/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for squelching and unsquelching serial port ingress traffic, including a squelch timer, an idle timer and a state machine which is configured to enable squelch and enable a data path, load and start the squelch timer when a character is received by the serial port, load and start the idle timer, activate a squelch state when the squelch timer expires before the idle timer and disable the data path.