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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1998
Robert James Toth, Huntsville, AL (US);
Michael Scott Sansom, Huntsville, AL (US);
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
A software-based automated DS0 channel format analysis routine resident in a U-BRITE interface card's microcontroller solves the problem of potential misconfiguration of ISDN interface circuit cards, as may result from the failure to properly set DS0 time slot option switches to their intended ISDN channel assignments. When exercised, the routine automatically determines not only what DS0 channels are available at the remote ISDN circuit card, but also the order in which those DS0 channels are multiplexed by that remote card's circuitry. As a consequence, once the routine has run to completion, each ISDN interface card will contain the same DS0 time slot multiplexing scheme—corresponding to what has been manually configured at a remote card—even if the remote card's DS0 option switches were originally incorrectly set.