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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:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Patricia J. Boggs, Conyers, GA (US);
Hossein Eslambolchi, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
John Sinclair Huffman, Conyers, GA (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 0/114 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 0/114 ;
Abstract
A plurality of remotely-situated cable-locating transmitters (,) are centrally managed using a database (,) that stores information about each transmitter, including information about the particular version of its operating software. When a software upgrade becomes available, the database is accessed to identify and select those transmitters that need the upgrade. The upgrade is then communicated to each selected cable-locating transmitter, typically via a dial-up communication links (,).