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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:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2001
John W. Garrett, Neshanic Station, NJ (US);
Charles Robert Kalmanek, Jr., Short Hills, NJ (US);
Lawrence E. Murphy, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Han Q. Nguyen, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
John W. Garrett, Neshanic Station, NJ (US);
Charles Robert Kalmanek, Jr., Short Hills, NJ (US);
Lawrence E. Murphy, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Han Q. Nguyen, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
It is an object of the invention to enable multiple services or service providers to share the facilities of an access network infrastructure providing physical connectivity to subscribers. A network access device advantageously may be used in communication network services with a service or service provider that is separate from the operator of the access network infrastructure.