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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Co., Plano, TX (US);
Inventor:
Sanjay Gupta, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 (2006.01); H04L 5/16 (2006.01); H04L 27/30 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/30 (2013.01); H04L 5/0098 (2013.01); H04L 27/0002 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a digital subscriber line (DSL) transmitter configured to transmit a discrete multi-tone (DMT) superframe comprising a sync frame and a data frame, wherein a time duration of the superframe is equal to at least a sum of a time duration of the sync frame and twice a time duration of the data frame, and turn off at least a portion of the DSL transmitter for a portion of the time duration of the superframe, wherein the portion of the time duration is no shorter than the duration of the data frame.