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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 9391834 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2012
Applicants:

Chan-soo Hwang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Geoffrey G. Moyer, Portola Valley, CA (US);

Mark B. Flowers, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Mehdi Mohseni, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Chan-Soo Hwang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Geoffrey G. Moyer, Portola Valley, CA (US);

Mark B. Flowers, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Mehdi Mohseni, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/24 (2006.01); H04M 3/08 (2006.01); H04M 3/22 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04M 3/30 (2006.01); H04M 11/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0631 (2013.01); H04M 3/305 (2013.01); H04M 3/306 (2013.01); H04M 11/062 (2013.01);
Abstract

In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided apparatus, systems and methods for detecting a boundary condition via common mode diagnostics; and to apparatus, systems and methods for detecting a fault condition via common-mode rejection ratio diagnostics. For example, in one embodiment such means include, means for injecting differential mode signal probes onto two conductors of a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL line); means for measuring a common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR) of the differential mode signal probes; means for measuring impedance of the differential mode signal probes; and means for identifying which of an asymmetric fault condition or a symmetric fault condition is present on the line based on both: (a) the measured CMRR of the differential mode signal probes and (b) the measured impedance of the differential mode signal probes.


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