Appeal No. 2006-0697
Reexamination 90/006,402
and the IRC is located at the junction of at least two fiber optic lines. The IRC receives
a transmitted data packet, determines the appropriate route for the packet and shunts
the packet toward or away from the ILM. A second data processor line card is located
at the second subscriber station and is coupled to the IRC to receive the transmitted
data packet.
The independent claims are claims 1, 10 and 16. Claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A fiber optic transmission system comprising:
a plurality of fiber optic lines, subscriber locations, intelligent
communication platforms, and at least one intelligent routing card;
a first source of data at a first subscriber location;
a first data processor line card at said first subscriber location
capable of forming a plurality of data transmission packets with data,
header and tail information;
a first intelligent communication platform coupled to said first data
processor line card by fiber optic lines wherein said first intelligent
communication platform is capable of receiving any one of said
transmission packets, determining the appropriate route for said one
transmission packet and is capable of shunting said one transmission
packet onto the appropriate fiber optic line to a first intelligent line module;
a first intelligent routing card at the junction of at least two fiber
optic lines and coupled to said first intelligent line module wherein said first
intelligent routing card is capable of receiving any one of said transmission
packets, determining the appropriate route for said transmission packet
and shunting said transmission packet onto the appropriate fiber optic line
to or away from said first intelligent line module; and
a second data processor line card at a second subscriber location
coupled to said first intelligent routing card capable of receiving said
transmission packet and decoding the data within said packet.
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