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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1977
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1975
Nicholas Kimbrough Smith, Naperville, IL (US);
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The integrity of switched, time-division multiplexed digital trunks in a telephone switching system is verified on an individual and in-service basis wherein the digital check is accomplished incident to the conventional D.C. network path continuity verification by the switching system common controller. The terminal circuits serving the channel allow a common multiplexer-demultiplexer to insert a test code during the allocated time slot of the channel being tested and detect the same test code from a similarly-functioning testing arrangement at the far end of the digital channel. Failure of a comparison between sent and received codes results in the inhibition of a positive D. C. path check indication to the common controller.