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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:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Frank Brinkman, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Martin Zirngibl, Middletown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/000 ; H04J 1/400 ; H04J 1/408 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/000 ; H04J 1/400 ; H04J 1/408 ;
Abstract
An optical router and accompanying method utilizing an N×N frequency router and N tunable transmitters. Packets to be routed are “colored” according to their intended destination and applied to an input port of the frequency router such that they appear at a desired output port.