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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2002
Applicant:
Gregory L. Bella, Naperville, IL (US);
Inventor:
Gregory L. Bella, Naperville, IL (US);
Assignee:
Westell Technologies, Inc., Aurora, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A front end, such as can be used in a Home Phoneline Networking Alliance network, may connected to a plurality of transmission lines. Each of the plurality of transmission lines may connected to one or more devices, such as a plain old telephone service device or an asynchronous digital subscriber line device. Devices connected to different transmission lines may then communicate with each other over the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance network.