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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark R. Jennings, Handover, NJ (US);
Frank S. Leone, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Richard Pimpinella, Hampton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Fitel USA Corp., Norcross, GA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/00 ; H01R 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/00 ; H01R 3/00 ;
Abstract
The location and type of equipment shelf installed in an optical fiber distribution frame is detected and transmitted to a software management system automatically. A plurality of photo transceivers, arrayed on the frame, detects encoded indicia on each shelf. The coded information is inventoried into a database and displayed in a virtual graphical representation of the frame.