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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:
Sep. 17, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hung-Hsiang J Chao, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Gennady Shtirmer, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Lanny S Smoot, Morris Township, Morris County, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Communications Research, Inc., Livingston, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359135 ; 370 8512 ; 359124 ;
Abstract
A customer premises network for interfacing customer premises equipment with a broadband digital trunk and exchange network comprises a relatively large bandwidth optical broadcast bus for broadcasting downstream data to the customer premises equipment and a smaller bandwidth looped bus for transmitting upstream data from the customer premises equipment. The units of customer premises equipment are connected by the looped bus in a daisy chain.