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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. 04, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2001
Applicant:
Winston Way, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventor:
Winston Way, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
OpVista Incorporated, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and device for wavelength conversion, wavelength buffering and label/header swapping. A wavelength buffer is used to provide for in-band wavelength conversion in, for example, a dense wavelength division multiplexing communications system. The same device may be used for label/header swapping without wavelength conversion.