Patents by Inventor Manal Afify

Manal Afify 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).

  • Multi-dwelling unit module for passive optical networks
    Patent number: 7660409
    Abstract: A multi-dwelling unit (MDU) module is configured for providing telephony communicating services and non-telephony services. The MDU module includes a motherboard and a plurality of service units connected to the motherboard. Each one of said service units and the motherboard are jointly configured for providing non-telephony service and telephony service to a plurality of service subscribers. The motherboard is configured for providing overload power management to limit power consumption associated with said telephony services during an overload condition and for providing lifeline power management to limit power consumption associated with said non-telephony services during a power outage condition. The MDU module optionally includes lightning primary surge protection blocks configured for being connected to the service units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Richard Marion Czerwiec, Manal Afify, Atahan Tuzel, Barry Lee Moffitt, Joseph Lee Smith, Anthony Peter Noto, David Charles Fargo, Bobby Lane English, John David Boyle, Alain Granger, Jak Yaemsiri, Andreas Flach, John Scott Cao, Ali Rezaki, Charles Pearse, Bakri Aboukarr, Arkin Aydin, Angelo Arlotta, Nicholas Adam Bundza
  • Method and apparatus for translating differently-sized virtual tributaries organized according to a synchronous optical network (SONET) standard
    Patent number: 5291485
    Abstract: A SONET virtual tributary reformatter has a drop encoder that receives incoming data of a second VT size mapped according to first VT size and provides the data in a format designed for the first VT size and also has an add decoder that receives outgoing data signals of the second VT size in the format of the first VT size and provides the outgoing data of the second VT size mapped according to the first VT size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Alcatel Network Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Manal Afify, Allen W. Moore, Claude M. Hurlocker