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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2014
Applicant:
Ikanos Communications, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vipin Pathak, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Stephen Muccione, Long Valley, NJ (US);
Sushil Prabhu, Ocean, NJ (US);
Bhupinder Thakur, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Ikanos Communications, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 (2015.01); H04B 3/46 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/46 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to certain aspects, embodiments of the invention relate to methods and apparatuses for performing diagnostics on a loop in a communications system. According to certain aspects, embodiments of the invention include performing SELT from a customer premises side of the loop. According to certain other aspects, embodiments of the invention address the issue of initiating a CPE side SELT procedure and also collecting the diagnostics data while a CPE is offline.