Patent ID: 7307408

Claim:
A device for identifying cables within an office or building comprising: a plurality of means for receiving a distal end of a cable, each of said plurality engaged to a mounting surface; each of said plurality of means for receiving a distal end of a cable, having means to electrically communicate with a cable engaged therewith; a plurality of means for visual identification, each of said plurality of means for visual identification corresponding to a single one of said means for receiving a distal end of a cable; each said means for visual identification having a static state and having an active state visually identifiable from the rest of said means for visual identification in said static state; means to generate an electrical signal; a connection wire electrically engageable at a first end to said means to generate an electrical signal, and adapted at a second end for an electrical engagement with the ground circuit of the AC power supply installed in said building; a second connection wire configured at a first end for an electrical engagement with a remote ground receptacle electrically communicating with said ground circuit; said second connection wire having a second end, said second end of said second connection wire configured for an electrically engageable connection with a remote end of said cable; means to activate each said means for visual identification having an electrical communication with each respective means to electrically communicate with a cable, said means to activate changing a respective said means for visual identification to said active state, only when said electrical signal is communicated through said ground circuit to said remote end of a respective said cable engaged with said corresponding single one of said means for receiving said distal end of said cable; and whereby a particular said cable, out of a plurality of said cables, is visually identifiable, when engaged with a respective said means for receiving a distal end of a cable, by a resulting change to said active state, of a corresponding one of said means for visual identification.