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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:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
May. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Scheer, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Jürgen Kasper, Stuttgart, DE;
Werner Beisel, Asperg, DE;
Wolfgang Krips, Stuttgart, DE;
Assignee:
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 1/100 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns a network element and an input-output unit (,) for a synchronous transmission system according to the standard for Synchronous Digital Hierarchy or according to the comparable Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) standard. The input-output unit (,) contains a signal processing device (,) that has a reception data memory (,), a transmission data memory (,), a control unit (,) and a processor (,). The processor (,) is a digital signal processor which essentially carries out the processing of a STM-N signal.