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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2001
Martin Garza, Grapevine, TX (US);
Joe Luna, Houston, TX (US);
Mark Jefferies Ogden, Owens Cross Roads, AL (US);
James Ernest Owen, Huntsville, AL (US);
James Denson Wilson, Jr., Huntsville, AL (US);
Martin Garza, Grapevine, TX (US);
Joe Luna, Houston, TX (US);
Mark Jefferies Ogden, Owens Cross Roads, AL (US);
James Ernest Owen, Huntsville, AL (US);
James Denson Wilson, Jr., Huntsville, AL (US);
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
An in-band communication scheme reports the results of loop performance measurements from a remote site to a test site, by deliberately injecting, into a loopback sequence of a repeated code word, a selected one of different numbers of errors. The number of errors is selectable from among a plurality of different quantification values, based upon in which of a plurality of respective ranges of loop performance parameters, measured parameter values fall. The error data is thus effectively a gray-scale type of quantification of loop performance measurement data.