Patent ID: 6975642

Claim:
An optoelectronic device selected from one of an optoelectronic transceiver, an optoelectronic transmitter and an optoelectronic receiver, the device comprising: a first interface configured to receive a first data stream that comprises data packets; a circuit that identifies data packets in the first data stream having a packet destination address matching a predefined address assigned to the optoelectronic device and modifies the first data stream to generate a second data stream, the second data stream including at least a subset of the data packets in the first data stream; the circuit further configured to perform operations according to information in the identified packets; a second interface configured to output the second data stream; and a sensor coupled to the circuit and configured to detect a status of the optoelectronic device and to generate a corresponding sensor signal, wherein the circuit is configured to generate at least one new data packet containing information associated with the corresponding sensor signal, and wherein at least one data packet of the second data stream contains information associated with the sensor signal.