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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:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Agilent Technologies, Inc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 3/24 ; H04J 1/402 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 3/24 ; H04J 1/402 ;
Abstract
A receiver for optical signals arranged in packets of data having a discontinuous flow pre-reads the signal and generates, for each packet, a corresponding signal indicating the phase of the data in the packet, and a threshold level indicating the packet mean signal power. A delay line delays the discontinuous flow by a delay interval. A receiver responsive to the discontinuous flow delayed by the delay line performs, on each packet, a receiving operation on the basis of the threshold level and with a phase identified on the basis of the phase indicating signal.