Ethernet converter

• US 20050053087A1
• Filed: 07/13/2004
• Published: 03/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Garry Allen Pulyk
• Original Assignee: Garry Allen Pulyk
• Inventors: Pulyk, Garry Allen
• Application Number:
  US10/891,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20050053087A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/463
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/04 for network, e.g. LAN connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/065 with built-in electric apparatus

Abstract

An ethernet converter enables computers with an ethernet connection to connect to a network on a two-wire system. The converter comprises a device installed behind a wall plate that employs an RJ11 port. The converter may comprise indicator lights, which notifies the user of the status of the converter. The converter may comprise a cable for connecting the computer to the device, and for connecting the device to a power source, which may be a USB port or a PS/2 port of the computer, or an AC/DC adapter connected to an AC power source.

Claims

1. A data port, comprising:

a wall mountable housing; and

a two-wire to ethernet converter mounted in the wall mountable housing, the two-wire to ethernet converter having a two-wire port, an RJ11 port and a circuit intermediate the two-wire port and the RJ11 port for conversion of data between the two-wire port and the RJ11 port.

2. The data port of claim 1 in which the two-wire to ethernet converter further comprises a power source.

3. The data port of claim 2 in which the power source is a USB port.

4. The data port of claim 2 in which the power source is a PS/2 port.

5. The data port of claim 2 in which the power source is an AC/DC adapter connected to an AC power source.

6. The data port of claim 1 in which a connector connects an ethernet port to the two-wire to ethernet converter.

7. The data port of claim 1 in which a connector connects the two-wire to ethernet converter to a power source.

8. The data port of claim 7 in which the connector further connects the two-wire to ethernet converter to a power source comprising a USB port.

9. The data port of claim 7 in which the connector further connects the two-wire to ethernet converter to a power source comprising a PS/2 port.

10. The data port of claim 7 in which the connector further connects the two-wire to ethernet converter to a power source comprising an AC/DC adapter connected to an AC power source.

11. The data port of claim 1 in which the wall mountable housing is mounted on a wall.

12. The data port of claim 11 in which the wall mountable housing is attached to a wall plate for mounting on a wall by an attachment such that the wall mountable housing is behind the wall plate, the wall plate comprising an opening and a peripheral edge, and the attachment comprising:

a resilient cantilevered arm extending outwardly from the exterior surface of the housing and forward toward a first end of the housing, the arm having a remote end on which is positioned an upstanding projection; and

a projection positioned toward the first end of the housing on the opposite side of the exterior surface as the resilient cantilevered arm.

13. The data port of claim 1, the wall mountable housing comprising indicator lights for indicating the status of the data port.

14. A connector for connecting a data port to an information source and for connecting the data port to a power source.

15. The connector of claim 14 in which the information source is an ethernet port of a computer.

16. The connector of claim 15 in which the data port comprises:

a wall mountable housing; and

a two-wire to ethernet converter mounted in the wall mountable housing, the two-wire to ethernet converter having a two-wire port, an RJ11 port and a circuit intermediate the two-wire port and the RJ11 port for conversion of data between the two-wire port and the RJ11 port.

17. The connector of claim 15 in which the power source is a USB port of the computer.

18. The connector of claim 15 in which the power source is a PS/2 port of the computer.

19. The connector of claim 15 in which the power source is an AC/DC converter connected to an AC power source.

20. The connector of claim 16 in which the wall mountable housing comprises indicator lights for indicating the status of the device for converting data.

21. The connector of claim 15 in which the connector is comprised of computer cables.