US Patent Issued to Calix on July 14 for "Autonomous ethernet interface speed configuration" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,884, issued on July 14, was assigned to Calix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Autonomous ethernet interface speed configuration" was invented by Michael T. Rollins (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatically configuring a pluggable module installed in an Ethernet system by probing the module using an interface protocol to identify a type and data transfer rate of the module and determine whether or not the type and data transfer rate are correct for a Ethernet data layer and physical (PHY) layer device of the system. If so, the automated process enables the PHY interface through a control bus coupled to a host CPU to o...