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Port Location Determination for Wired Intelligent Terminals

  • US 20090265318A1
  • Filed: 04/21/2008
  • Published: 10/22/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. 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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