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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:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brandon C. Collings, Middletown, NJ (US);
Howard R. Stuart, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 4/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 4/00 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for preparing groups of low duty cycle WDM transmission channels such that each group can be demultiplexed either via conventional WDM (e.g., by optically filtering each channel and receiving that channel at its line rate) or via TDM (e.g., directing an entire group of WDM channels onto a signal higher speed detector, receiving them all and demultiplexing the channels in a temporal (electronic) domain).