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US 2019/0094474 A1Published application
Optical ferrule adaptor
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsKevin B. Leigh, John Norton
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Abstract
An optical fiber assembly includes an optical ferrule adaptor and a tag reader assembly comprising a pair of tag reading antennas.
Claims22
An optical ferrule adaptor assembly, comprising:
- an optical ferrule adaptor comprising:
- a first sleeve to receive a first optical fiber ferrule, and
- a second sleeve to receive a second optical fiber ferrule in a mating arrangement with the first optical fiber ferrule;
- and
- a tag reader assembly coupled to the optical ferrule adaptor, and comprising:
- a first antenna proximal to the first sleeve,
- a second antenna proximal to the second sleeve, and
- a reader chip connected to the first and second antennas.
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A system, comprising:
- a first optical fiber ferrule comprising a first radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, the first RFID tag storing a first network identifier;
- a second optical fiber ferrule comprising a second (RFID) tag storing a second network identifier;
- an optical ferrule adaptor comprising:
- a first sleeve to receive the first optical fiber ferrule, and
- a second sleeve to receive the second optical fiber ferrule in a mating arrangement with the first optical fiber ferrule;
- a tag reader assembly coupled to the optical ferrule adaptor, and comprising:
- a first antenna proximal to the first sleeve,
- a second antenna proximal to the second sleeve, and
- a reader chip connected to the first and second antennas;
- and
- a network management device connected to the reader chip to receive the first network identifier and the second network identifier from the tag reader assembly and to determine network connectivity using the first and second identifiers.
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A method, comprising:
- assembling a row of optical ferrule adaptors by attaching a plurality of optical ferrule adaptors to a retainer,
- each optical ferrule adaptor comprising a first sleeve to receive a first optical fiber ferrule, and a second sleeve to receive a second optical fiber ferrule in a mating arrangement with the first optical fiber ferrule,
- the retainer comprising a chip reader and a plurality of antennas, each antenna corresponding to a single sleeve of the plurality of optical ferrule adaptors, and
- connecting the row of optical ferrule adaptors to a communication interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.