Patent ID: 7535966
Filing Date: 2009-05-19
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: obtaining, at a DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) system component, information to be sent to a recipient; determining whether a DSL system component is operating in a fast operational mode or an interleaved operational mode and selecting the other mode as an unused mode; selecting a system management operational data parameter of the unused mode from among a plurality of system management operational data parameters used to communicate management operational data on a physical layer management channel; assigning the information, at the DSL system component, to at least one bit of the selected operational data parameter in place of the information that the parameter normally would carry to generate an amended operational data parameter, the parameter being amended by containing the information assigned to the parameter; sending the amended operational data parameter using the physical layer management channel from the DSL system component to the recipient.