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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:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 05, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard John Proctor, Wimborne, GB;
Thomas Slade Maddern, Wimborne, GB;
Michael Denis Batts, Poole, GB;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370480 ; 370395 ;
Abstract
A communications network using Asynchronous Transfer Mode has a head end unit connected to a plurality of groups of network terminations wherein the frequency spectrum of the network is divided into a number of frequency bands, one band of which forms a start-up band used for start-up and configuration of a network termination, the remaining bands each being used for communication between the head end unit and the network terminations within a group subsequent to start-up and configuration. The network may be a Passive Optical Network.