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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. 29, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2003
Applicants:
Charles Mao, Plano, TX (US);
Lintao Zhang, Richardson, TX (US);
Guohua Xiao, Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J014/00 ; G02B006/28 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An optical reconfigurable service ring (RSR) architecture based on a RSR channel and WDM channel plan matrix, and method for operation in a fiber network that provides WDM wavelength networking functionalities such as provisional wavelength services, optical circuit switching, optical layerpacket switching, optical storage switching, and optical layerpacket routing, are proposed. In one embodiment, sixteen wavelength are dynamically switching, routed, or distributed among five optical add/drop nodes using narrowly wavelength tunable transmitters and fixed optical add/drop multiplexer modules.