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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:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Andrew J. Kuzma, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/12 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for generating an access identifier (ID) for a communications line of a communications network capable of providing a relatively low bandwidth channel and at least one relatively high bandwidth channel over the communication line. According to one embodiment, a virtual circuit is established with an access ID server using the relatively low bandwidth channel. An access ID is requested from the access ID server over the virtual circuit that will enable a circuit to be established using the at least one relatively high bandwidth channel.