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Automated documentation system for a communications network

  • US 4,953,194 A
  • Filed: 09/22/1989
  • Issued: 08/28/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for identifying interconnections between individual conductors in a communications network of the kind in which includes a plurality of multiple conductor links, individual conductors of which are selectively terminated and interconnected at corresponding individual terminals of terminal blocks, comprisinga controller for broadcasting over a test network that includes said terminal blocks an inquiry that identifies a starting individual conductor, andsupervisors associated with said terminal blocks,the supervisor associated with the terminal block that terminates said starting conductor applying said inquiry to the individual terminal that corresponds to said starting individual conductor for transmission on said communications network,each supervisor reporting to said controller over said test network identities of any one or more individual terminals of its associated terminal block that detect said inquiry, whereby interconnections between said starting conductor and one or more other individual conductors in said communications network are identified.

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