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US 11,777,752 B2Granted
Power over ethernet device tester and configuration system, apparatus, and method
OwnerAli Eghbalinventor
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Abstract
A system, topology, and methods for testing a POE signal downstream from a POE source and configuring a POE device remotely including wired and wireless system for providing signals from remote POE device while providing power to the POE device.
Claims20
A Power over Ethernet (PoE) apparatus for configuring and verifying the operation of a physically separate PoE powered device that provides data on a data pair, including:
- a portable monolithic body including:
- an upstream Ethernet port including a data wire pair and a power wire pair, the upstream Ethernet port for receiving PoE power from a physically separate PoE source via the data wire pair and the power wire pair, the PoE apparatus only receiving external power from the PoE source;
- a downstream Ethernet port including a data wire pair and a power wire pair;
- a PoE source module coupled to the data wire pair and the power wire pair of the upstream Ethernet port to provide power only to the data wire pair, the PoE apparatus, and the power wire pair of the downstream Ethernet port;
- a plurality of signal transformers coupled the data wire pair of the downstream Ethernet port and further coupled to one of a data wire pair of a second Ethernet port to provide only the data received on the data wire pair of the downstream Ethernet port to the second Ethernet port and a wireless transmitter to wirelessly transmit a signal representing the data only received on the data wire pair of the downstream Ethernet port and;
- a meter coupled to a plurality of diode bridges, the meter determining a characteristic of the PoE power signal;
- and
- a user perceptible display, the display showing the determined signal characteristic.
5 more elements
A method of configuring and verifying the operation of a physically separate Power over Ethernet (PoE) powered device via a PoE apparatus, the PoE apparatus including:
- a portable monolithic body including:
- an upstream Ethernet port including a data wire pair and a power wire pair, the upstream Ethernet port for receiving PoE power from a physically separate PoE source via the data wire pair and the power wire pair, the PoE apparatus only receiving external power from the PoE source;
- a downstream Ethernet port including a data wire pair and a power wire pair;
- a PoE source module coupled to the data wire pair and the power wire pair of the upstream Ethernet port to provide power only to the data wire pair, the PoE apparatus, and the power wire pair of the downstream Ethernet port;
- a plurality of signal transformers coupled the data wire pair of the downstream Ethernet port and further coupled to one of a data wire pair of a second Ethernet port to provide only the data received on the data wire pair of the downstream Ethernet port to the second Ethernet port and a wireless transmitter to wirelessly transmit a signal representing the data only received on the data wire pair of the downstream Ethernet port;
- and
- a meter coupled to a plurality of diode bridges, the meter determining a characteristic of the PoE power signal;
- and
- a user perceptible display, the display showing the determined signal characteristic;
- coupling the PoE apparatus upstream Ethernet port to a physically separate PoE power source;
- coupling the PoE apparatus downstream Ethernet port to the physically separate PoE powered device whose operation is to be configured or verified;
- and
- employing a physically separate Ethernet device to view data provided by the physically separate PoE powered device on the downstream Ethernet port via one of the second Ethernet port and the wirelessly transmitted signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.