Optical Local Area Network (lan) Patents (Class 398/58)
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Patent number: 11997436Abstract: An IC-TROSA point-to-multipoint optical network system includes a point-to-multipoint optical network coupled to a hub device configured to transmit first and second optical signals via respective first and second transmit ports. A subscriber coherent optical transceiver device on a subscriber device is coupled to the point-to-multipoint optical network, and includes a subscriber signal processing subsystem that receives optical signals from the hub device, and determines whether the subscriber coherent optical transceiver device is configured to receive the optical signals via the first or second transmit port on the hub device. If configured to receive the optical signals via the first transmit port, the subscriber signal processing subsystem performs first signal processing operations to decode the optical signals. If configured to receive the optical signals via the second transmit port, the subscriber signal processing subsystem performs second signal processing operations to decode the optical signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventor: David Piehler
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Patent number: 11997171Abstract: A communication device in a communication system in which functions that are converted to software are configured as a plurality of components, and the functions are realized as a result of the components being respectively executed by a plurality of communication devices that are connected to a network, the communication device including a sorting unit configured to acquire a signal that is transmitted by a first component and transmit the signal to a second component indicated by destination information that is added to the signal by the first component.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Hatano, Manabu Yoshino
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Patent number: 11984930Abstract: A communication device in a communication system in which functions that are converted to software are configured as a plurality of components, and the functions are realized as a result of the components being respectively executed by a plurality of communication devices that are connected to a network, the communication device including a platform for each component that realizes a function corresponding to a plurality of the networks, wherein the platform includes a common processing unit configured to execute processing that is not dependent on the network and a dependent processing unit for each network, the dependent processing unit being configured to execute processing that is dependent on the network.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Hatano, Manabu Yoshino
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Patent number: 11985455Abstract: An OLT connected with a controller managing slices includes a bandwidth allocating unit capable of allocating bandwidths in a PON system to ONUs through allocation methods, a slice managing unit that calculates a guaranteed delay time for each allocation method, receives, from the controller, a resource reservation request including a bandwidth requested to be reserved in the PON system for a slice and a requested delay time, and determines an allocation method associated with the request based on the requested delay time and the guaranteed delay time for each allocation method, and a resource information generating unit that holds, as abstract resource information, an available bandwidth for the guaranteed delay times of each ONUs, calculates an available bandwidth in the allocation method of the associated ONU based on the allocation method associated with the request and the requested bandwidth, and updates and transmits the abstract resource information, to the controller.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Suehiro, Kenichi Nakura, Akiko Iwasaki
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Patent number: 11979190Abstract: An optical network unit (ONU) used in a passive optical network (PON) includes an optical fiber interface, a sniffer module and a frame format converting module. The optical fiber interface is configured to receive an XGPON Transmission Convergence (XGTC) frame. The sniffer module is configured to output a downstream unprocessed XGEM frame and an upstream unprocessed XGEM frame according to the XGTC frame. The frame format converting module is configured to convert the downstream unprocessed XGEM frame and the upstream unprocessed XGEM frame to respective Ethernet (ETH) frames.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY (SUZHOU) LIMITEDInventor: Hai-Sheng Lai
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Patent number: 11979191Abstract: An apparatus grouping data units for optical network units into groups of Encapsulation Method, EM, frame(s), wherein a respective group of EM frame(s) include data units addressed to a respective subset of ONUs, generating, based on the groups of EM frame(s), a Framing Sublayer payload including at least one specific frame, wherein, the specific frame includes a length indicator determined in relation to the length of the group(s) of EM frame(s) that is(are) directly following the specific frame and is(are) addressed to at least one subset of ONUs; instructing the ONUs assigned to at least one of said at least one subset to process the EM frame directly following the specific frame, and instructing the ONUs not assigned to the at least one subset to process the EM frame that is indicated by the length indicator of the specific frame; and transmitting the Framing Sublayer payload to the ONUs.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Jochen Maes, Yannick Lefevre
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Patent number: 11973531Abstract: The present invention enables shortening the time required for resuming communication in a protection method that uses a backup path in an optical communication system that includes a master station device and multiple slave station devices. The slave station devices are connected to a loop path in parallel. The communication paths between the master station device and the slave station devices include a normal path and a backup path. The master station device executes communication control processing with respect to the slave station devices based on the RTTs. A first slave station device is a slave station device that cannot perform communication via the normal path. If the first slave station device is detected, the master station device calculates a first backup path for the first slave station device based on a first RTT between the master station device and the loop path, a loop RTT required for one full lap on the loop path, and the first normal path RTT for the first slave station device.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Rintaro Harada, Hirotaka Ujikawa, Shin Kaneko, Jun Terada
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Patent number: 11968035Abstract: In part, in one aspect, the disclosure relates to a system including an integrated optical multiplexer. The integrated optical multiplexer may include a plurality of optical inputs configured and constructed to receive input optical signals; two or more stages of multiplexing in a cascading configuration, wherein the two or more stages of multiplexing are divided into wavelength stages and a last stage, wherein each of the wavelength stages combine subsets of input optical signals by wavelength, the last stage combines input optical signals by polarization using a polarization beam combiner, and at a combined output of the integrated optical multiplexer a first subset of the input optical signals have a different polarization than a second subset of the input optical signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Acacia Communications, Inc.Inventor: Long Chen
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Patent number: 11949454Abstract: There is provided an optical network device (30) comprising separate downstream and upstream signal paths (33, 34) disposed between a wavelength division multiplexing unit (16) and a signal splitting element (32, 44, 50), an optical to electrical signal converter (18) disposed in the downstream path and an electrical to optical signal converter (22) disposed in the upstream path, wherein the signal splitting element (32, 44, 50) is capable of splitting signals independent of signal frequency and is configured with an isolation of 30 to 50 dB thereby to substantially prevent leakage of downstream signals into upstream path (34). The signal splitting element is capable of splitting signals independent of signal frequency and may be a directional coupler, two-way signal splitter or hybrid coupler comprising at least two different types of coupler element.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TECHNETIX B.V.Inventors: Martien Rijssemus, Matthijs Laro
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Patent number: 11888524Abstract: A communication device includes: a first transmission-reception unit connected with a first optical line terminal; a second transmission-reception unit connected with a second optical line terminal; and a control unit, the first transmission-reception unit acquires a control signal having a destination at the second or third optical line terminal from the first optical line terminal, the control unit forwards the control signal toward the second transmission-reception unit connected with the second or third optical line terminal, and the second transmission-reception unit forwards the control signal to the second or third optical line terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Manabu Yoshino
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Patent number: 11881894Abstract: An optical communication device includes a WDM optical transmission reception unit that receives an optical signal and converts the optical signal to an electric signal, a MUX/DEMUX unit that converts the electric signal obtained by the conversion to a plurality of electric signals, signal detection units, a switch unit that changes paths, client IF units, and a control unit. A first signal detection unit among the signal detection units detects a first electric signal among the plurality of electric signals. When the first electric signal is a signal to be processed based on a first communication standard, the control unit controls the switch unit so that the first electric signal is inputted to a client IF unit that executes a process based on the first communication standard among the client IF units.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Ryo Hayakawa
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Patent number: 11855360Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for communicating between platforms, comprising the steps of initializing a first platform and a second platform; optically tracking a movement of the second platform by the first platform; and optically communicating bi-directionally between the first platform and the second platform. Disclosed herein is an optical communication device comprising various elements including but not limited to: a processor configured to provide at least a tracking mode and a communications mode; an input-output interface coupled to the processor; an electro-optic controller coupled to the input-output interface; an acquisition-tracking portion coupled to the electro-optic controller; and a communication portion coupled to the electro-optic controller.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: 4S-Silversword Software and Services, LLCInventors: William Robert Allen Ziegler, Ronald H. Smith
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Patent number: 11848698Abstract: A path protection method includes receiving, by a source node of a first path, a path event notify message from a first node on the first path. The path event notify message includes indication information that the first path is predicted to fail. The path protection method further includes obtaining, by the source node, information about a predicted protection path. The information about the predicted protection path includes resource information of a second path useable to protect a service on the first path. The first path and the second path include the source node and a same sink node. The path protection method further includes storing, by the source node, the resource information of the second path.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Gang Xie, Hao Li, Xianlong Luo, Min Zhao, Haomian Zheng
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Patent number: 11848706Abstract: A laser communication system for an aircraft has optical head units, separate laser transmitting unit, laser receiving unit, optical fiber for each optical head unit, optical switching device for coupling an optical head unit and a separate laser transmitting unit, and a central control unit, the optical head units connected to the optical switching device through the optical fiber, the optical head units having an optical axis, parallel to which light is emitted or received, and an optical pointing mechanism for adjusting the respective optical axis. The separate laser transmitting unit has a laser. The control unit connects to the optical switching device, laser transmitting unit, laser receiving unit and optical head unit to control a laser based data communication through coupling an optical head unit, which is in a free line of sight to a target outside the aircraft, to the laser transmitting unit and to modulate operation of the laser transmitting unit for emitting a signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Airbus (S.A.S.)Inventor: Ricardo Barrios
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Patent number: 11838703Abstract: An item of ONU equipment configures itself for communicating via a first transport system with an item of OLT equipment in an optical access network, and starts a synchronisation for the first transport system and transmits via the first transport system. The OLT equipment transmits, via a protocol layer fitting on top of the entire transport system of the optical access network, without waiting for the synchronisation for the first transport system to have ended, a message indicating which transport system is to be used by the ONU equipment. When the transport system to be used by the ONU equipment is the first transport system, the synchronisation continues the first communication system, otherwise the synchronisation is restarted for the second transport system.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SASInventor: Anthony Reuche
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Patent number: 11804902Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, implementing an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) that successfully communicates with Optical Network Terminals having various ONT Management Control Interface (OMCI) parameter configurations. The OLT is configured to perform operations including determining that two different sets of OMCI parameters are required to communicate with two different ONTs and registering both of the two different ONTs using two different sets of OMCI parameters. The registration includes configuring communications with a first ONT using a first set of OMCI parameters and configuring communications with a second ONT using a second set of OMCI parameters that differs from the first set of OMCI parameters. After completing the registering, the OLT exchanges network traffic with each of the two different ONTs according to their respective configurations.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: ADTRAN, Inc.Inventors: Orlyn Craye Hall, Jr., Andrew Littleton, Josh Matthew Horton
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Patent number: 11805072Abstract: A method for distributing data process according to technical resource capacity availability and constraints across a network is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at a database, a feed request for processing by a computing resource, among a network of computing resources that are geographically dispersed. Further, the method includes identifying, among the network of computing resources, a computing resource for processing the feed request based on the at least one attribute and processing capacity of the computing resources, and assigning the feed request for processing to the identified computing resource in real-time and without predetermined assignment to process increase in data volume by leveraging remotely located and/or underutilized computing resources.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.Inventor: Marcelo Gotesdiner
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Patent number: 11804909Abstract: A method of communication includes notify, by an optical line terminal (OLT), an optical network unit (ONU) a first time period assigned to a first power saving operation and a second time period assigned to a second power saving operation, and perform, by the OLT, the second power saving operation for a receiver of the OLT during the second time period and the first power saving operation for a transmitter of the OLT during the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: ZTE CorpoprationInventors: Jun Shan Wey, Dan Geng, Liquan Yuan, Weiliang Zhang
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Patent number: 11800265Abstract: A bandwidth allocation method and a related device are disclosed. An exemplary method includes: when a total sum of a cumulative sum of fixed bandwidth configuration upper limits of traffic bearing entities and a cumulative sum of assured bandwidth configuration upper limits of the traffic bearing entities is greater than a maximum bandwidth value of a passive optical network (PON) port of a piece of central office equipment, determining, by the central office equipment based on a bandwidth configuration upper limit of each traffic bearing entity and a required bandwidth value of the traffic bearing entity, a bandwidth value actually allocated to the traffic bearing entity. In this way, a part of bandwidth is allocated to each traffic bearing entity. This avoids a case in which no bandwidth is allocated to some traffic bearing entities. Therefore, resource allocation is more appropriate.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Lun Zhang, Gang Zheng
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Concept for a source device and a destination device of a point-to- multipoint communication network
Patent number: 11792123Abstract: Examples relate to a transmission apparatus, transmission device, transmission method and computer program for a source device, and to a reception apparatus, reception device, reception method and computer program for a destination device. The transmission apparatus is suitable for generating a header of a transmission frame to be transmitted downstream from a source device to a plurality of destination devices via a point to multipoint communication network. The transmission apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to generate the header based on a plurality data units to be transmitted to the destination devices. Each data unit is designated to be transmitted to one of the destination devices. The processing circuitry wherein the header is generated such, that the header comprises, for each destination device, information on a presence of data for the destination device in the transmission frame associated with the header.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Naveed Alam, Dhruba Deka, Ravindra Singh -
Patent number: 11777607Abstract: A transfer device installed between a host device and a plurality of OLTs in a communication system to which a network with a PON configuration including the plurality of OLTs between the host device and a subordinate device is applied, the transfer device including a frame information acquisition unit configured to monitor downstream frames input from the host device and calculate a statistical value of the downstream frames per a predetermined fixed cycle, a frame storage unit including a plurality of queues each configured to store downstream frames to be transferred to the plurality of OLTs, the frame storage unit configured to store the downstream frames input from the host device, a frame sorting unit configured to input the downstream frames to the plurality of queues in the frame storage unit, and a distribution control determination unit configured to determine the number of frames to be sequentially input by the frame sort unit to the plurality of queues based on the statistical value.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Rintaro Harada, Hiroyuki Uzawa, Hirotaka Nakamura, Jun Terada
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Patent number: 11778551Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for harvesting radio frequency (RF) energy based on an energy harvesting EH indication signal. A transmitting device such as a base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), an EH indication signal that indicates a time period when radio frequency (RF) energy is to be available. The UE may receive the EH indication signal and harvest RF energy from the RF signal during the time period. The transmitting device may transmit an RF signal to the UE or another UE during the time period. The UE may receive a wake up indication indicating a second time period to monitor a control channel. The UE may split power between energy harvesting and receiving RF signals during the second time period.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Huilin Xu, Yongjun Kwak, Yuchul Kim, Jing Lei, Hwan Joon Kwon
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Patent number: 11736186Abstract: The present invention enables shortening the time required for resuming communication in a protection method that uses a backup path in an optical communication system that includes a master station device and multiple slave station devices. The slave station devices are connected to a loop path in parallel. The communication paths between the master station device and the slave station devices include a normal path and a backup path. The master station device executes communication control processing with respect to the slave station devices based on the RTTs. A first slave station device is one of the slave station devices, and a second slave station device is a slave station device that cannot perform communication via the normal path.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Rintaro Harada, Hirotaka Ujikawa, Shin Kaneko, Jun Terada
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Patent number: 11728956Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to schedule individual orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) resources on an upstream channel to serve a data transmission request from a downstream device. A schedule for a set of available resources on the upstream channel to serve the data transmission request is generated, based on a dynamic bit loading profile, including generating data indicative of a first bit loading profile for a first set of resources from the set of available resources for a first burst, and data indicative of a second bit loading profile for a second set of resources from the set of available resources for a second burst. The schedule is transmitted to a downstream device, such that the downstream device is configured to encode the first burst using the first bit loading profile and the second burst using the second bit loading profile.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Casa Systems, Inc.Inventors: Hongbiao Zhang, Chain Lee, Yanbo Yuan, Tao Yu, Weidong Chen
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Patent number: 11674865Abstract: A system and method utilizing a light transfer protocol for a sensor that monitors hose assembly degradation is disclosed. The system includes a sensor having one or more first alignment features, a contactless switch, and a light transmitter configured to transmit a light transfer protocol. The light transfer protocol is a sensor unique identification code recognizable by a gateway device that automatically pairs the sensor to the gateway device.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: DANFOSS POWER SOLUTIONS II TECHNOLOGY A/SInventors: David Samuel Remba Uribe, Glenn J. Steffen
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Patent number: 11671183Abstract: An optical isolator system comprises an electrical-to-optical converter apparatus for receiving an input electrical signal from a system of an aircraft and converting the input electrical signal into an optical signal which is representative of the input electrical signal. The optical isolator system further comprises an optical-to-electrical converter apparatus for receiving the optical signal from the electrical-to-optical converter apparatus, for converting the received optical signal into an output electrical signal which is representative of the received optical signal, and for transmitting the output electrical signal to a portable server for the wireless distribution of content such as visual content, web content, video content, audio content, games, services, information and/or advertising content to clients in the aircraft. Associated methods are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: BLUEBOX AVIATION SYSTEMS LTDInventor: James Macrae
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Patent number: 11646812Abstract: This disclosure describes devices and methods related to multiplexing optical data signals. A method may be disclosed for multiplexing one or more optical data signals. The method may comprise receiving, by a dense wave division multiplexer (DWDM), one or more optical data signals. The method may comprise combining, by the DWDM, the one or more optical data signals. The method may comprise outputting, by the DWDM, the combined one or more optical data signals to one or more wave division multiplexer (WDM). The method may comprise combining, by the one or more WDM, the combined one or more optical data signals and one or more second optical data signals, and outputting an egress optical data signal comprising the combined one or more optical data signals and one or more second optical data signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Harjinder S. Ghuman, Christopher Palmquist, David Job, Robert Kuse
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Patent number: 11611470Abstract: A communication device including a first communication device and a plurality of second communication devices in an optical access system in which a first communication device and the plurality of second communication devices perform communications with each other under a time division multiple access scheme includes an Ethernet controller configured to implement the communications as Ethernet (registered trademark) communications, and a link failure processing unit configured to output, in response to reception of a link failure notification for notifying occurrence of a link failure in the communications from the first communication device, a termination instruction to terminate data transmission when the communication device is performing the data transmission to the first communication device, and a start instruction to start the data transmission after recovery from the link failure when the communication device is not performing the data transmission to the first communication device.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takamitsu Tochino, Takashi Mitsui, Tomoya Hatano
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Patent number: 11595128Abstract: A method for performing ONU Management and Control Interface (OMCI) synchronization includes receiving an OMCI message containing a OLT-G entity identifying OLT's vendor identification (ID) and version. The method also includes determining if an OLT vendor identification (ID) matches with a current vendor ID and if an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) version is compatible with current OMCI handlers. When the OLT vendor ID fails to match with the current vendor ID, automatically performing a OMCI handler switching process. The OMCI handler switching process includes setting a current OLT vendor as a new OLT vendor ID, deleting a OMCI configuration previously stored in the flash memory after setting the new OLT vendor ID, and rebooting the ONT to allow the ONT to initialize a OMCI configuration using a new OMCI profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Cambridge Industries USA, Inc.Inventors: Yanghong Zhong, Fan Xiong, Binbin Peng, Jili Fu
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Patent number: 11595743Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, optical line terminals (OLTs), optical network units (ONUs), apparatuses and computer storage media for transmitting a time synchronization message. In some example embodiments, the OLT is configured to: determine a threshold rate to be N messages per second for transmission of a time synchronization message to an ONU, wherein N being greater than or equal to 0.1; and transmit, to the ONU, a time synchronization message at the threshold rate or a rate above the threshold rate, to enable the ONU to perform time synchronization with the OLT. In some other example embodiments, the OLT is configured to: select a plurality of ONUs for transmitting time synchronization information; and transmit, to the ONUs, a broadcast or multicast message the time synchronization information, to enable the plurality of ONUs to perform time synchronization with the OLT.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Lifei Sun, Jiabao Zou, Shenping Guo, Dan Geng, Jian Li
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Patent number: 11588666Abstract: A transmitter encoding apparatus includes a multiplexer and a first transmitter encoder. The multiplexer receives a first digital signal and a second signal and to generate an output, in which the output of the multiplexer includes M-bit code words of the first digital signal and M-bit code words of the second digital signal arranged in an interleaved manner. The first transmitter encoder receives the output of the multiplexer and generates N-bit code words, and N is not equal to M. The first transmitter encoder determines a current N-bit code word of the N-bit code words according to the output of the multiplexer and a disparity of a previous N-bit code word of the N-bit code words. The first transmitter encoder transmits the N-bit code words to a receiver decoding apparatus including a demultiplexer and a first receiver decoder configured to decode the N-bit code words.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hsu-Jung Tung, Lien-Hsiang Sung
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Patent number: 11564021Abstract: A distribution network with point-to-multipoint architecture couples a line termination unit to a plurality of network termination units. A network termination unit includes one or more user network interfaces configured to interface with respective user equipment of respective users, a downstream packet buffer for temporary storage of data packets, a downstream packet buffer monitor configured to monitor the status of the downstream packet buffer and to generate back-pressure signals indicative for the status, wherein the status corresponds to a fill level or fill level variation of the downstream packet buffer, and an upstream transmitter configured to upstream transmit the back-pressure signals to the line termination unit to be used there for shaping and/or scheduling future downstream transmission of data packets to the one or more user network interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Bart Pauwels, Michaël Fivez, Koenraad Schelfhout, Koen De Schepper, Carl Mertens
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Patent number: 11552721Abstract: A clock synchronization method includes receiving, by a receiving apparatus, a plurality of data blocks using a plurality of physical layer modules (PHYs), where the plurality of data blocks include a plurality of head data blocks, performing, by the receiving apparatus, timestamp sampling on the plurality of data blocks to generate a plurality of receipt timestamps, aligning, by the receiving apparatus, the plurality of receipt timestamps using a first receipt timestamp as a reference, generating, by the receiving apparatus, a clock synchronization packet based on the plurality of data blocks, and writing, by the receiving apparatus, a value of a second receipt timestamp into the clock synchronization packet, where the second receipt timestamp is a receipt timestamp that is of a second data block and that is determined based on the plurality of aligned receipt timestamps.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiang He, Yunlei Qi, Jingfeng Chen, Tao Lin, Junmin Song, Xinyuan Wang
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Patent number: 11546891Abstract: A device transmits data to management server via the first interface. A terminal transmits management information for the device to use the first interface to the device via the second interface by visible light communication. The device transmits the data acquired by the device to the management server via the first interface based on the received management information.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: N sketch Inc.Inventor: Yuki Anezaki
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Patent number: 11533839Abstract: A method and a system for controlling a self-propelling lawnmower including the self-propelling lawnmower having a control unit and at least one sensor, a boundary wire and a signal generator. The self-propelling lawnmower moves across an area surrounded by the boundary wire. By encoding a data frame with a recognition code in an alternating current that is Direct Current, DC-balanced and that is randomly transmitted within a predetermined period of time, by means of the signal generator, to the boundary wire a system robust against interference is accomplished. The data frame burst is received by a sensor and decoded by a control unit in the lawnmower. By comparing the received recognition code with a stored recognition code, the control unit determines that the lawnmower is on the inside of the boundary wire if the received recognition code matches the stored recognition code, and on the outside if the received recognition code matches the inverse of the stored recognition code.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Globe (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jimmy Alzen
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Patent number: 11539436Abstract: A network infrastructure combining data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) cable modem management and 10 Gb passive optical network XGPON networking technology. The DOCSIS equipment controls restrict the XGPON to physical layer (layer 1) while the DOCSIS equipment operate at a data link layer and above.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.Inventors: Gerfried Krampl, Barak Hermesh, Amos Klimker, Shaul Shulman, Franz-Josef Schaefer, Guy Ray
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Patent number: 11516110Abstract: A method for obtaining a cross-domain link. The method includes: a control device sends a first message to a forwarding device in an internet protocol (IP) domain, where the first message is used to instruct the forwarding device to search for a device adjacent to the forwarding device in an optical domain; the control device receives a second message from an optical network element adjacent to the forwarding device in the optical domain, where the second message includes a first identifier identifying the optical network element, a second identifier identifying a port communicating with the forwarding device and being on the optical network element, and a media access control (MAC) address of the forwarding device; and obtains the cross-domain link between the forwarding device and the optical network element based on the first identifier, the second identifier, and the MAC address of the forwarding device.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Chongpu Xia, Shijing Huang, Zhongchao Zhao
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Patent number: 11502769Abstract: A data management structure (1a) on board a transportation device, incorporating a cabin (100) provided with seats (110), includes a data resource block (210) incorporating audiovisual transmission system units (211 to 213), outward communication systems (100) and/or cabin systems, a standardised data distribution architecture (10a), and devices (E1 to E4) for operating said systems. In the structure (1a), the standardised architecture (10a) includes a concentration box (11) for the bidirectional transfer, on the one hand, of base signals with the resource block (210) and, on the other hand, optical signals with the devices (E1 to E4) of the cabin (100) on at least one optical fibre (2, 3; 2a, 2?a; 2b). This concentration box (11) houses units for processing (211 to 213) by signal switching, bidirectional conversion into optical signals, and optical signal management by wavelength allocation and distribution of downstream (F1) and upstream (F2) optical flows.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: LATELECInventors: Cyrille Delame, Serge Berenger, Yoann Rebiere
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Patent number: 11463380Abstract: Dynamic packet routing based on fabric awareness information is presented. Networking nodes in a networking fabric observe environmental properties across the fabric. When differences in environment properties between portions of the fabric are detected, differences in power consumption costs for example, the fabric generates corresponding routing tables. The networking nodes can then route traffic in a manner that is sensitive to the environment properties, power consumption or the cost of power for example.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLCInventor: Thomas Wittenschlaeger
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Patent number: 11452014Abstract: Disclosed herein a system, a method and a device for selecting between a primary link and a secondary link for AR/VR applications. A console can provide a VR/AR session to a user through a head wearable display. The console can determine that a first measurement of a primary link between the console and a head wearable display is less than a first threshold. The first measurement can include a quality metric of the primary link. The console can activate a secondary link between the console and the head wearable display. The console can determine whether a second measurement of the primary link between the console and the head wearable display is less than a second threshold. The console can transition when the second measurement is less than the second threshold, traffic on the primary link to the activated secondary link.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Dong Zheng, Qi Qu, Gang Lu, Yuting Fan, William Louis Abbott
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Patent number: 11429551Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical communications. A board is disclosed. The board includes a level adjustment circuit, a detection apparatus, and a control apparatus. The detection apparatus is configured to: when the detection apparatus is connected to an optical module, receive an indication signal output by an upstream optical signal detection pin; continuously detect a received first level signal and the received indication signal. If there is a second level signal, opposite to the first level signal, the detection apparatus notifies the control apparatus that the optical module is inserted. If there is no second level signal in the signal received within the preset duration, the detection apparatus notifies the control apparatus that the optical module is absent. This makes the optical module less dependent on the in-position pin, and decreases a quantity of pins of the optical module.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Ying Zhang, Yuanmou Li, Jin Li
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Patent number: 11405109Abstract: The present disclosure relates to information transmission methods, optical line terminations (OLTs), optical network units (ONUs), and communications systems. One example method on an OLT side includes allocating, by the OLT, an identifier to a first ONU through a first channel, performing, through the first channel, ranging on the first ONU to obtain ranging information about the first channel, and after determining, by the OLT and the ONU through negotiation, to use two channels to perform information transmission, performing, by the OLT, data transmission of a first service with the first ONU through a second channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lun Zhang, Gang Zheng
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Patent number: 11373662Abstract: Audio system height channel up-mixing that is configured to develop two or more height channels from audio sources that do not include height-related encoding. The up-mixing involves determining correlations and normalized channel energies between input audio signals. At least two height channels (e.g., left and right height audio signals) are developed from the correlations and normalized energies.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Bose CorporationInventor: James Tracey
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Patent number: 11375299Abstract: An OLT comprises a processor configured to: obtain optical powers associated with ONUs, and generate an instruction instructing a transmit order of transmissions based on the optical powers; a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the instruction to the ONUs; and a receiver coupled to the processor and configured to receive the transmissions from the ONUs based on the instruction. An apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive an instruction instructing a transmit order of transmissions based on optical powers associated with ONUs; a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to process the instruction; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit a transmission based on the instruction.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Huaiyu Zeng, Xiang Liu, Andy Shen, Ning Cheng, Yuanqiu Luo, Frank Effenberger
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Patent number: 11356196Abstract: A method of communication using a forward error correction (FEC) code includes receiving, at an optical line terminal (OLT), performance capability information provided by an optical network unit (ONU), adjusting, at the OLT, a ratio between an FEC code size and a payload size based on the performance capability information, and informing the ONU of the FEC code size selected based on the ratio such that message exchanges between the ONU and the OLT are performed using the FEC code size to which the ratio is applied.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Jun Shan Wey, Junwen Zhang, Zheng Liu, Weiliang Zhang
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Patent number: 11350192Abstract: A method for multi-rate data interaction in an optical network, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: acquiring a rate capability supported by an ONU; and interacting service data via a channel corresponding to the rate according to the rate capability supported by the ONU.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Yanbin Qiu, Liyong Cai, Peng Wang
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Patent number: 11329950Abstract: A WAN controller can configure a first WAN interface on a first WAN edge device to connect to a first transport network. The WAN controller can configure a second WAN interface on a second WAN edge device to connect to a second transport network. The WAN controller or the first WAN edge device, connected to a first access device of an access network, can determine the first WAN edge device has no Layer 2 connectivity to the second WAN edge device, connected to a second access device of the access network. The WAN controller or the first WAN edge device can establish a tunnel between the first WAN edge device and the second WAN interface. The WAN controller can route a specified class of WAN traffic received by the first WAN edge device from the access network through the tunnel.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Ajay Kumar Mishra, Satyajit Das, Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru, Anubhav Gupta
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Patent number: 11251897Abstract: Methods, systems, and optical power controllers are disclosed. Various problems caused by the use of a single L0 power controller in the prior art are addressed by using first and second L0 power controllers with the first L0 power controller managing first optical components with the optical network, and the second L0 power controller managing second optical components within the optical network.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Infinera CorporationInventors: Omer F. Yilmaz, Stephane St-Laurent, Steve Sanders, Matthew L. Mitchell
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Patent number: 11239914Abstract: A light fixture includes a housing defining a peripheral wall around a reference axis and being provided with a base defining a light emission window. The light fixture further includes a photoreceiver mounted on the base and configured to receive a light beam from the remote terminal carrying a data signal, called the uplink signal, a lighting module arranged in the housing and configured to emit a light beam carrying a data signal, called the downlink signal, through the window and a module for processing data signals according to at least one communication protocol of the network. The light fixture includes a printed circuit board, called the processing board, extending transversely inside the housing and remote from the base, on which the processing module is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: LUCIBELInventors: Emilie Poulain, Loic Boinet
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Patent number: 11218786Abstract: Disclosed are a spectrum allocation method and device for an optical network and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: segmenting a service path of an optical network to obtain at least one path segment; trying to allocate, in sequence, for each path segment of the service path a service processing manner that satisfies a service spectrum requirement; and when the service processing manner satisfies the service spectrum requirement, allocating a frequency used by each path segment on the service path according to the currently allocated service processing manner of each path segment of the service path.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventor: Shuchao Xiao