Patent ID: 11863919
Assignee: FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. The system of claim 1, wherein the optical profile of the segment is a current optical profile of the segment, and the method further comprises at least one of:
determining the current optical profile of the segment based on one or more characteristics of one or more optical signals delivered over the segment;
determining the drift over time of the optical profile of the segment based on the current optical profile of the segment and at least one historical optical profile of the segment; or
determining the respective drifts over time of the respective optical profiles of at least some of the one or more other segments based on respective current optical profiles of the at least some of the one or more other segments and respective one or more historical optical profiles of the at least some of the one or more other segments.