Patent ID: 11962955
Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A port occupancy monitoring system, the system comprising:
a gateway coupled to a network; and
a plurality of connector panels coupled to the network, each connector panel comprising a bladed panel system that includes a panel communications unit communicatively coupled to the network;
wherein the bladed panel system comprises:
a chassis including sidewalls extending between a front and a rear to define an interior, the chassis including guides, the guides extending in a forward-rearward direction; and
a plurality of blades mounted to the guides of the chassis, each blade including at least one modular port adapter assembly comprising:
a plurality of communications couplers; and
a plurality of port occupancy sensors each coupled to a sensor circuit, wherein each of the plurality of port occupancy sensors are configured to sense when one or more of the plurality of communications couplers are occupied by a connector for a segment of physical communications media;

wherein the panel communications unit is configured to obtain from the sensor circuit which of the plurality of communications couplers are occupied; and
wherein the panel communications unit communicates port occupancy information to the gateway indicating which of the plurality of communications couplers are occupied.