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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
May. 27, 2014
Applicant:
Rpx Clearinghouse Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Norival Figueria, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Bottorff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Guyves Achtari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Huiwen Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard Brand, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
RPX Clearinghouse LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/077 (2013.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); G01M 11/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/071 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/0773 (2013.01); H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0067 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0083 (2013.01); G01M 11/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/071 (2013.01);
Abstract
An optical communication device comprises an input/output configured to be coupled to an optical communications line, and a passive optical loopback module coupled to the input and configured to receive optical signals from the input/output, the loopback module being further configured to reflect incoming signals of a test wavelength to the input/output.