Security system for a network device

• US 8,357,008 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2009
• Issued: 01/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Spivey, Thomas P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Application Number:
  US12/353,815
• Publication Number:
  US 20100178795A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,469 Days
• Field of Search: 439535-538, 174/480, 174/491
• US Class Current: 439/535
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/123 in thin walls
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A mounting system for a circuit receptacle is provided. The mounting system includes a socket and a circuit receptacle. The socket includes a locking recess that is disposable in an opening of an installation surface. The circuit receptacle includes a locking tab that engages the locking recess and secures the circuit receptacle to the socket. The locking tab may be configured to engage the locking recess in the opening of the installation surface, such that the locking tab is hidden.

Claims

1. A mounting system for a circuit receptacle, the mounting system comprising:

a socket including a locking recess, the socket being operable to be installed in an installation surface;

a circuit receptacle that includes a locking tab that engages the locking recess and secures the circuit receptacle to the socket, the locking tab configured to engage the locking recess in an opening of the installation surface, such that the locking tab is hidden; and

a socket cover that engages the socket and covers the circuit receptacle, the socket cover including a security passage disposed therein and leading to the locking tab.

2. The mounting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the security passage is an only passage to the locking tab.

3. The mounting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the security passage includes a security slot of the socket cover and a rotational opening, the slot extending through the socket cover and connecting to the rotational opening.

4. The mounting system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the security passage is sized and shaped such that a security tool, which includes a rotation tab, is insertable into the security slot of the socket cover until the rotation tab is disposed in the rotational opening and rotated.

5. The mounting system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the rotation tab prevents the security tool from being rotated in the security slot.

6. The mounting system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the rotational tab is sized such that when the rotational tab is rotated in the rotational opening, the rotational tab forces the socket to move such that the locking tab is no longer engaging the locking recess.

7. The mounting system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the locking recess is disposed on a socket finger.

8. The mounting system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the rotational tab is sized such that when the rotational tab is rotated in the rotational opening, the rotational tab forces the socket finger to move such that the locking tab is no longer engaging the locking recess.

9. A security system for a network device comprising:

a security passage; and

a rotational opening at one end of the security passage, the rotational opening being sized and positioned such that a rotational tab may be inserted into the security passage and rotated in the rotational opening to release a locking tab that is securing the network device.

10. The security system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the locking tab is operable to engage a locking recess of a socket, the locking recess being disposed on a socket finger that may be moved to release the locking tab.

11. The security system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the rotational tab comprises a first portion that engages a security wall that prevents the first portion from rotating and a second portion that is operable to be rotated in the rotation opening, the second portion leveraging the first portion to engage and move the socket finger such that the locking tab is released.

12. The security system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the security passage and rotational opening are disposed in a socket cover that engages a socket that is installed in an opening of an installation surface, the network device being installed with the socket.

13. The security system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the security tool includes an alignment pin that is inserted into an alignment hole, such that the security tool releases the locking tab.

14. A method for removing a network device from a mounting socket, the method comprising:

inserting a security tool into a security passage in a mounting system, the security passage being sized and shaped to receive the security tool that is operable to move a locking recess that engages and secures a locking tab of a network device, the locking recess being disposed on a mounting socket that is operable to be engaged with the network device; and

rotating the security tool such that the security tool engages and moves the locking recess away from the locking tab.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein rotating the security tool includes rotating the security tool such that the security tool engages and moves the mounting system away from the locking tab.

16. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the security passage includes an opening in a socket cover that is operable to engage the socket installed in an opening of an installation surface.

17. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein a rotational opening at one end of the security passage includes an opening beneath the locking recess, such that the security tool may engage a socket finger, which includes the locking recess, and move the socket finger away from the locking tab.

18. The method as claimed in claim 14, further comprising removing the network device from the socket when the locking recess is moved away from the locking tab.

19. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the security tool includes a rotational tab that is sized to rotate in a rotational opening at one end of the security passage and sized to engage with the socket.