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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2008
Michael Asher, Conyers, GA (US);
Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Chuck Giddens, Conyers, GA (US);
John Sinclair Huffman, Conyers, GA (US);
Harold Stewart, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Michael Asher, Conyers, GA (US);
Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Chuck Giddens, Conyers, GA (US);
John Sinclair Huffman, Conyers, GA (US);
Harold Stewart, Alpharetta, GA (US);
AT&T Corp, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for interpreting data obtained by measuring a length of optical fiber using an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR), and comparing that measurement to a reference measurement. The technique uses statistical inference to determine a whether a reference trace is valid by comparing that trace to a more recent test trace. The reference trace may be replaced or an alarm may be transmitted under certain conditions.