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

Claim 29:
30. A method for a connector panel that comprises: a panel communications unit communicatively coupled to a network; 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, and at least one modular port adapter assembly that includes a plurality of communications couplers and a plurality of port occupancy sensors each coupled to a sensor circuit, the method comprising:
sensing when one or more of a plurality of communications couplers are occupied by a connector for a segment of physical communications media;
obtaining from a sensor circuit which of the plurality of communications couplers are occupied;
communicating from the panel communications unit to a gateway via the network, port occupancy information indicating circuit which of the plurality of communications couplers are occupied, wherein each blade includes a midplane bus assembly configured to communicatively couple the sensor circuit to the panel communication unit.