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US 2006/0067264 A1Published application
Method and apparatus to provide selective status information for communications channel(s)
OwnerJeffrey Whaleyinventor
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Abstract
An integrated circuit maintains status information for a communications channel. The integrated circuit selects a portion of the status information maintained for the communications channel. The integrated circuit repeatedly transmits the selected portion of status information over a time-division multiplexed channel to a host.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- maintaining by an integrated circuit status information for a communications channel;
- selecting by the integrated circuit a portion of the status information maintained for the communications channel;
- and
- repeatedly transmitting by the integrated circuit the selected portion of status information over a time-division multiplexed channel to a host.
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An apparatus comprising:
- circuitry to maintain status information for a communications channel;
- circuitry to select a portion of the status information maintained for the communications channel;
- and
- circuitry to transmit repeatedly the selected portion of status information over a time-division multiplexed channel to a host.
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A system comprising:
- a subscriber line interface circuitry integrated circuit for coupling to a host;
- and
- a plurality of linefeed interface integrated circuits for coupling to the subscriber line interface circuitry integrated circuit and to a plurality of subscriber loops,
- wherein the subscriber line interface circuitry integrated circuit comprises circuitry to maintain status information for one or more of the subscriber loops, circuitry to select a portion of the maintained status information, and circuitry to transmit repeatedly the selected portion of status information over a time-division multiplexed channel to the host.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.