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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021

Filed:

May. 03, 2019
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey Alan Benson, Shawnee, KS (US);

Terri Jones, Bothell, WA (US);

Brian Maddux, Clinton, WA (US);

David Hill, Trussville, AL (US);

Dennis Roofe, Conway, AR (US);

Veronica Gensamer, Alpharetta, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/18 (2009.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/18 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0005 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0066 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/009 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0016 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0073 (2013.01);
Abstract

A dark fiber design tool for hardware, circuits, and paths is provided. A method can include generating, by a device comprising a processor, a data record comprising properties of a group of hardware elements associated with a wireless communication network; establishing, by the device, a set of rules that define permissible interactions between respective hardware elements of the group of hardware elements based on the data record; building, by the device, a circuit plan associated with the wireless communication network, the circuit plan comprising optical connections between the respective hardware elements of the group of hardware elements as determined based on the data record and the set of rules; and associating, by the device, respective optical wavelength paths with respective ones of the optical connections of the circuit plan further based on the set of rules.


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