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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. 15, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
William B Weeber, Apex, NC (US);
Ertugrul Baydar, Raleigh, NC (US);
Sahabettin C Demiray, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Network Systems, Inc., Richardson, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370517 ; 375372 ;
Abstract
A receive SONET line interface includes an elastic store which receives and stores incoming signals from a pointer tracking circuit and retrieves stored signals for providing to a pointer generating circuit wherein, for both the pointer tracking and pointer generating circuits, separate state memories are provided for keeping track of the state of previous state pointer tracking and generating signals in time slots of repetitive frames of an incoming SONET signal.