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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2024
Frontier Communications Holdings, Llc, Dallas, TX (US);
John Valdez, Copper Canyon, TX (US);
Erwin Wardojo, McKinney, TX (US);
FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for locating optical fiber includes a vehicle's computing device transmitting an acoustic signal and its location, an optical fiber transmitting light signals, an optical detector detecting reflected light due to the acoustic signal, and a server analyzing the reflected light to determine the fiber's location. A method involves receiving a reflected light signal at a computing device, analyzing its properties to identify an acoustic signal's properties, comparing these to a known audio signature emitted from a vehicle, and determining the fiber's location based on the identified vehicle's location. Another method includes a vehicle's computing device transmitting an acoustic signal, determining the vehicle's location, and transmitting this location to a server to determine the optical fiber's location based on the acoustic signal's properties.