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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:
Jun. 18, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 953 ; 370103 ; 375206 ; 375258 ; 359118 ;
Abstract
A method for marshalling an additional outstation (3) of a time division multiple access (TDMA) telecommunications system including a basestation (4) and a plurality of outstations (1, 2), such as a passive optical network (PON). A sequence is transmitted from the additional outstation (3) to the basestation (4) at a level below the noise sensitivity of a receiver (49) of the basestation (4), detected at the basestation and its phase discrimated. From the discriminated phase the loop delay to the additional outstation is determined and the outstation instructed to realign its transmission accordingly. The sequence and its phases are detected by a correlation process. (FIG. 1).