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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:
Feb. 16, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard John Proctor, Dorset, GB;
Assignee:
GPT Limited, Hortsville, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359136 ; 359123 ; 359167 ;
Abstract
An optical communications network having a Head End Unit connected to a plurality of groups of Network Termination Equipments (NTE) and/or Optical Network Units (ONU), the downstream communication being by Time Division Multiplex, has a group multiplexed onto a stream and a plurality of streams are combined into a higher speed multiplex and the upstream communication is by Time Division Multiplex Access.