Patent ID: 8433056

Claim:
A method, comprising: transiting a first Digital Subscriber Loop transceiver from a Digital Subscriber Loop communication session to a Digital Subscriber Loop wait state in which the first Digital Subscriber Loop transceiver transmits substantially lower power to a local-end line, the transiting being perfromed in response to an interruption or a substantial stop in the Digital Subscriber Loop communication session of Digital Subscriber Loop communications in one direction between the first Digital Subscriber Loop transceiver and a second Digital Subscriber Loop transceiver; transmitting a first Digital Subscriber Loop acknowledge signal from the first Digital Subscriber Loop transceiver to the local-end line in response to receiving a Digital Subscriber Loop wait signal at the first Digital Subscriber Loop transceiver from the local-end line; and in response to the transmitting, resuming to transmit Digital Subscriber Loop communications from the first Digital Subscriber Loop transceiver to the local-end line at a power substantially higher than a power transmitted to the local-end line in the Digital Subscriber Loop wait state, the act of resuming being responsive either to receiving at the first Digital Subscriber Loop transceiver a substantially higher Digital Subscriber Loop power than a Digital Subscriber Loop power received thereat in the Digital Subscriber Loop wait state or to receiving at the first Digital Subscriber Loop transceiver a second Digital Subscriber Loop acknowledge signal from the second Digital Subscriber Loop transceiver.