Method for management and documentation of contact points of a wiring network

• US 6,378,111 B1
• Filed: 10/23/1998
• Issued: 04/23/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: CCS Technology Inc. (Corning Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: CCS Technology Inc. (Corning Incorporated)
• Inventors: Cremer, Cornelius, Brenner, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim, Krisna
• Application Number:
  US09/177,362
• Time in Patent Office: 1,278 Days
• Field of Search: 716/5
• US Class Current: 716/110
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/229 Wire identification arrangements; Number assignment determination
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 1/136 having patch field management or physical layer management arrangements

Abstract

The method manages and documents contact points of a wiring network in an electric branching apparatus in an automatic manner using electronic information units with storage units that are inserted at the contact points of the wiring network. The stored data is detected by a computer and is compiled into a wiring plan.

Claims

1. A method for managing and documenting contact points of a wiring network in an electrical branch apparatus, comprising the steps of:

inserting electronic information units with storage units at the contact points of the wiring network;

inputting retrievable information, that is required for creating a wiring plan to the electronic information units;

detecting the electronic information units by address by using a computer;

creating a wiring plan with the obtained information; and

documenting inputs and outputs of a connection and storing the documentation in the electronic information units as retrievable data.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic information units are electronic circuits in the form of chips and wherein a power supply of the chips is produced via a line of the wiring network.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein wiring changes are respectively updated in the storage units.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein generation of the data is executed at one of a distributor or splitter for communication lines.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic information units are protected by at least one of overvoltage and overcurrent arresters.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein connection of the electronic information units to the computer is produced by a plugging-on of a plug.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the interrogation of the electronic information units is wirelessly executed.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein communication to the electronic information units in a distributor from a location with a master station is executed via lines with modulated signal traffic.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein a frequency range for the signal transmission is below 10 Hz.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein measurement results of connected measuring circuits, are extracted at the electronic information units.

11. A method for managing and documenting contact points of a wiring network in an electrical branch apparatus, comprising the steps of:

inserting electronic information units with storage units at the contact points of the wiring network;

inputting retrievable information, that is required for creating a wiring plan to the electronic information units;

wirelessly interrogating the electronic information units by address by using a computer;

creating a wiring plan with the obtained information;

documenting the inputs and outputs of a connection and storing the documentation in the electronic information units as retrievable data; and

updating wiring changes in the storage units.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the electronic information units are electronic circuits in the form of chips and wherein a power supply of the chips is produced via a line of the wiring network.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein generation of the data is executed at one of a distributor or splitter for communication lines.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the electronic information units are protected by at least one of overvoltage and overcurrent arresters.

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein connection of the electronic information units to the computer is produced by a plugging-on of a plug.

16. A method for managing and documenting contact points of a wiring network in an electrical branch apparatus, comprising the steps of:

inserting electronic information units with storage units are inserted at the contact points of the wiring network;

inputting retrievable information, that is required for creating a wiring plan to the electronic information units;

detecting the electronic information units by address by using a computer and communicating with the electronic information units in a distributor from a location with a master station via lines with modulated signal traffic;

creating a wiring plan with the obtained information; and

documenting the inputs and outputs of a connection and storing the documentation in the electronic information units as retrievable data.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the electronic information units are electronic circuits in the form of chips and wherein a power supply of the chips is produced via a line of the wiring network.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein wiring changes are respectively updated in the storage units.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein generation of the data is executed at one of a distributor or splitter for communication lines.

20. The method according to claim 16, wherein the electronic information