Patent ID: 7936679

Claim:
A transceiver having shared and discrete components forming a transmit path and a receive path configured to couple to a subscriber line among a bundle of subscriber lines for establishing a multi-tone modulated frequency division multiplexed communication channel with a remote transceiver coupled to an opposing end of the subscriber line, and the transceiver comprising: a pseudo link manager coupled between the transmit and receive path components to manage pseudo links on the subscriber line by detecting a pseudo-session between the remote transceiver and an other transceiver resulting from crosstalk between the subscriber line and an other subscriber line in the bundle coupled to the other transceiver and by disrupting the pseudo-session thereby enabling a normal session between the remote transceiver and the transceiver over the subscriber line and wherein the pseudo link manager further comprises: a line monitor to monitor the subscriber line prior to initiating a session for a received communication signal from the remote transceiver indicative of the pseudo-session between the remote transceiver and the other transceiver; and a disruptor responsive to a detection by the line monitor of such communication signal to transmit a disruptor signal over the subscriber line to the remote transceiver at a power level less than a downstream power mask and greater than a crosstalk level on the subscriber line, thereby disrupting the pseudo-session and allowing the remote transceiver to initiate a normal session with the transceiver over the subscriber line.