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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:
Mar. 01, 1994

Filed:

Feb. 18, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:

Manal Afify, Raleigh, NC (US);

Allen W Moore, Cary, NC (US);

Claude M Hurlocker, Raleigh, NC (US);

Assignee:

Alcatel Network Systems, Inc., Richardson, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 77 ; 370 99 ;
Abstract

A SONET virtual tributary reformatter has a drop encoder that receives incoming data of a second VT size mapped according to first VT size and provides the data in a format designed for the first VT size and also has an add decoder that receives outgoing data signals of the second VT size in the format of the first VT size and provides the outgoing data of the second VT size mapped according to the first VT size.


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