ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,744, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Intelligent fiber to the room (FTTR) gateway" was invented by Frank J. Effenberger (Frisco, Texas) and Yuanqiu Luo (Cranbury, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by an optical network unit (ONU) gateway connecting an access passive optical network (PON) and a home PON for rerouting in-home traffic data back to the home PON. The method includes receiving, by the ONU gateway, an access PON downstream optical signal from an optical line terminal (OLT). The access PON downstream optical signal includes first access traffic intended...