Patents by Inventor Marco Pierre Hendrik Van De Bergh

Marco Pierre Hendrik Van De Bergh has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for monitoring an optical WDM network
    Patent number: 6714741
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring an optical network being equipped with WDM equipment able to transmit a plurality of data channels at different wavelengths. From the said optical network a part of its optical signal power is coupled out and a specific statistical function of interest is determined which characterizes the said plurality of data channels. The parameters of said determined function of interest are processed in a predetermined mathematical model having a finite number of parameters and from said model information is derived on individual channels. Data representing the said information are produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke KPN N.V.
    Inventors: Marco Pierre Hendrik Van De Bergh, Harmen Joseph Sebastiaan Dorren, Johannes Jacobus Gerardus Maria Van Der Tol, Jan Marcel Rijnders