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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2004
Applicant:
Arthur Thinguldstad, Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventor:
Arthur Thinguldstad, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An optical network termination (ONT) apparatus can determine its own geographic location information automatically, thereby permitting the ONT to report its geographic location to a management entity in a passive optical network (PON) automatically, without manual intervention.