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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2009
Augusto P. Panella, Naperville, IL (US);
Elliot A. Baines, Naperville, IL (US);
Jeng-de Lin, Yorkville, IL (US);
Augusto P. Panella, Naperville, IL (US);
Elliot A. Baines, Naperville, IL (US);
Jeng-De Lin, Yorkville, IL (US);
Molex Incorporated, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
A termination unit () for use with a system that permits the monitoring of a computer network to perform network inventories. The termination unit takes the form of a cap that engages the termination face of a network jack and has a sensing circuit () integrated therewith so that, once engaged with the jack, the sensing circuit is connected to two terminals of the jack. The sensing circuit may include a resistor, capacitor or inductor, any of which provide a known sensing value that is different than a sensed value of an end-user device used on the network, but less than infinity so that the system senses when an end-user device is connected to or disconnected from the network.