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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2001
Filed:
May. 30, 1997
Milton L. Embree, Reading, PA (US);
Jonathan H. Fischer, Blandon, PA (US);
Donald R. Laturell, Allentown, PA (US);
Robert F. Lee, Wyomissing, PA (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to interface devices that provide an interface between a first device and a second device, where the interface device provides electrical isolation between the first device and the second device, and where codec processing is distributed between the first-device side and the second-device side of the interface device. In a preferred embodiment, the second device has a transmission line, the interface device is a modem, and the electrical isolation is provided by one or more digital couplers that transmit sigma-delta signals that are coded and decoded in both the first-device-side and second-device-side circuitries of the modem.