OPTICAL SIGNAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE

• US 20110205533A1
• Filed: 05/04/2011
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: MILLS, Robert H., LAWTER, Timothy E., MYRLAND, Gary E., WELLBROCK, Glenn A., XIA, Tiejun J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,591,126 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 356/229
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/07955 Monitoring or measuring power

Abstract

A device connects to a male network connector of a network conduit, and connects to a female network connector of the network conduit. The female network connector is capable of communicating with the male network connector. The device also measures outputs of the male network connector and the female network connector.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

connecting a measurement device to a male network connector of a network conduit;

connecting the measurement device to a female network connector of the network conduit and

simultaneously measuring outputs of the male network connector and the female network connector with the measurement device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

displaying the measured outputs with the measurement device;

storing the measured outputs with the measurement device;

or

transmitting the measured outputs with the measurement device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

comparing the measured outputs using the measurement device;

or

performing a statistical analysis on the measured outputs using the measurement device.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising at least one of:

displaying results of the comparison or statistical analysis using the measurement device;

storing results of the comparison or statistical analysis using the measurement device;

or

transmitting results of the comparison or statistical analysis using the measurement device.

5. The method of claim 1, where the measurement device comprises a detector and the simultaneously measuring the outputs of the male network connector and the female network connector comprises:

simultaneously measuring optical powers of the male network connector and the female network connector with the detector.

26. The method of claim 5, where the detector comprises at least one of:

a photon detector;

a thermal detector;

a photoconductive detector;

a photovoltaic detector;

or

a photoemissive detector.

27. The method of claim 3, where performing the statistical analysis on the measured outputs further comprises:

statistically comparing the measured outputs of the male network connector and the female network connector to measured outputs of other connectors.

6-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A device comprising:

a first detector to communicate with a first network connector;

a second detector to communicate with a second network connector; and

a processor to;

simultaneously measure outputs of the first and second network connectors.

23. The device of claim 22, where the processor further is to:

compare the measured outputs;

or

perform a statistical analysis on the measured outputs.

24. The device of claim 23, where the processor further is to at least one of:

display the measured outputs or results of the comparison or statistical analysis;

store the measured outputs or results of the comparison or statistical analysis;

or

transmit the measured outputs or results of the comparison or statistical analysis.

28. The device of claim 22, where the measurement device comprises a detector and where, when the processor is to simultaneously measure the outputs of the first and second network connectors, the processor further is to:

simultaneously measure optical powers of the first and second network connectors using the detector.

29. The device of claim 28, where the detector comprises at least one of:

a photon detector;

a thermal detector;

a photoconductive detector

a photovoltaic detector;

or

a photoemissive detector.

30. The device of claim 23, where, when the processor is to perform the statistical analysis on the measured outputs, the processor further is to:

statistically compare the measured outputs of the first and second network connectors to measured outputs of other connectors.

25. A system comprising:

means for connecting a measurement device to a male network connector of a network conduit;

means for connecting the measurement device to a female network connector of the network conduit, the female network connector being capable of communicating with the male network connector; and

means for simultaneously measuring outputs of the male network connector and the female network connector using the measurement device.

31. The system claim 25, further comprising:

means for displaying the measured outputs with the measurement device;

means for storing the measured outputs with the measurement device;

or

means for transmitting the measured outputs with the measurement device.

32. The system of claim 25, further comprising:

means for comparing the measured outputs using the measurement device;

or

means for performing a statistical analysis on the measured outputs using the measurement device.

33. The system of claim 32, further comprising:

means for displaying results of the comparison or statistical analysis using the measurement device;

means for storing results of the comparison or statistical analysis using the measurement device;

or

means for transmitting results of the comparison or statistical analysis using the measurement device.

34. The system of claim 32, where the means for performing a statistical analysis further comprises:

means for statistically comparing the measured outputs of the male network connector and the female network connector to measured outputs of other connectors.

35. The system of claim 25, where the measurement device comprises a detector and the means for simultaneously measuring outputs further comprises:

means for simultaneously measuring optical powers of the male network connector and the female network connector with the detector.

36. The system of claim 35, where the detector comprises at least one of:

a photon detector;

a thermal detector;

a photoconductive detector

a photovoltaic detector;

or

a photoemissive detector.