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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:
Nov. 01, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2001
Applicant:
Lawrence E. Foltzer, Occidental, CA (US);
Inventor:
Lawrence E. Foltzer, Occidental, CA (US);
Assignee:
Turin Networks, Petaluma, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B010/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for transmitting a bit interleaved optical data stream on an optical network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the network includes multiple transmitters that are enabled to transmit an optical bit during established time slots that correspond to each transmitter. This allows those transmitters to create a bit interleaved optical data stream.