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US 2013/0259222 A1Published application
Splitter wall plates for digital subscriber line (dsl) communication systems and methods to use the same
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsVernon Reed, Donald W. True, David Rackley
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Abstract
Splitter wall plates for digital subscriber line (DSL) communication systems and methods to use the same are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a splitter to separate a digital subscriber line (DSL) signal from a plain old telephone signal (POTS) signal, and a switch to selectively couple a VoIP signal received via a first jack or the POTS signal to a second jack.
Claims11
A method comprising:
- connecting a first wire-pair of a cable to a first set of terminals of a splitter wall plate at a wall plate location;
- connecting a second wire-pair of the cable to a second set of terminals of a splitter wall plate;
- configuring a first switch of the splitter wall plate to couple a plain old telephone service signal present on the first wire-pair or a voice over Internet protocol signal present at a first jack of the splitter wall plate to the second wire-pair via the second set of terminals;
- configuring a second switch of the splitter wall plate to disconnect the plain old telephone service signal or the voice over Internet protocol signal from the second set of terminals, and to connect the plain old telephone service signal or the voice over Internet protocol signal to a third set of terminals of the splitter wall plate;
- coupling the third set of terminals to a first port of an alarm system;
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- coupling a second port of the alarm system to a fourth set of terminals of the splitter wall plate, the fourth set of terminals being electrically coupled to the second set of terminals.
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A method comprising:
- coupling a digital subscriber line signal to a first jack at a first wall plate via a digital subscriber line splitter;
- coupling a plain old telephone service signal to a first switch at the first wall plate, the first switch configurable to couple the plain old telephone service signal onto a first wire-pair;
- electrically coupling a second wire-pair at a second wall plate to the digital subscriber line splitter, the second-wire-pair to carry a signal comprising the digital subscriber line signal and the plain old telephone service signal;
- electrically coupling the first wire-pair to a second jack at the second wall plate to provide the plain old telephone service signal at the second wall plate;
- coupling the plain old telephone service signal to an alarm system via a first terminal at the first wall plate;
- coupling an output of the alarm system to the first wire-pair;
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- selecting which of the output of the alarm system or the plain old telephone service signal is coupled to the first wire-pair and the first jack via a second switch at the first wall plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.