US 2009/0265318 A1 · Port Location Determination for Wired Intelligent Terminals

Abstract

Locations corresponding to ports of a wired intelligent terminal may be determined. In an example embodiment, an intelligent terminal includes multiple ports, a location association data structure, and a location association handler. The multiple ports provide ingress and egress for communications being received at and transmitted from the intelligent terminal. The location association data structure includes multiple entries with each corresponding to a respective port. Each entry associates a port identification of the corresponding respective port with a location indication. The location association handler ascertains a port on which a location information communication is received from a location indicating device that is coupled to a remote termination point. The location information communication includes a particular location indication that is ascertained at the location indicating device. The location association handler stores the particular location indication in association with a port identification of the ascertained port in the location association data structure.

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Dependent claims

An intelligent terminal device for port location determination, the intelligent terminal device comprising:

multiple ports that provide points of ingress and egress for communications being received at and transmitted from the intelligent terminal device;
a location association data structure including multiple entries, each entry of the multiple entries corresponding to a respective port of the multiple ports;
each entry capable of associating a port identification of the corresponding respective port with a location indication;
and
a location association handler to ascertain a port of the multiple ports on which a location information communication is received from a location indicating device coupled to a remote termination point, the location information communication including a particular location indication that is ascertained at the location indicating device;
the location association handler to store the particular location indication in association with a port identification of the ascertained port in the location association data structure at an entry of the multiple entries that corresponds to the ascertained port.

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A method for port location determination with an intelligent terminal, the method comprising acts of:

receiving a location information communication via a port of the intelligent terminal from a location indicating device that is coupled to a remote termination point, the location information communication including a location indication;
extracting the location indication from the location information communication;
ascertaining the port on which the location information communication is received;
associating the location indication with an identification of the ascertained port;
and
storing the location indication in association with the identification of the ascertained port in an entry of a location association data structure of the intelligent terminal, the entry corresponding to the ascertained port.

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A method for port location determination with a location indicating device, the method comprising acts of:

connecting the location indicating device to a network at a remote termination point;
ascertaining a current location of the location indicating device;
formulating a location information communication including a location indication that is based on the current location;
and
transmitting via the remote termination point the location information communication that includes the location indication to a port of an intelligent terminal that forms part of the network.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Port Location Determination for Wired Intelligent Terminals

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Abstract

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