Method and system for implementing data transmission utilizing techniques used for transient state computing with optics

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10356872-B2
Application number	US-201916266865-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 4, 2019
Priority date	Jun 28, 2017
Publication date	Jul 16, 2019
Grant date	Jul 16, 2019

Abstract

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing data transmission, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing data transmission utilizing techniques used for transient state computing with optics. In various embodiments, a photo-transmitter system of a chromatic transient state data transmission system might send, over optical transmission media, a data signal comprising a series of chromabit values, by emitting, using a set of colored light emitters, a combination of colors representing each chromabit value. A photo-receiver system of the chromatic transient state data transmission system that is communicatively coupled to the photo-transmitter system via the optical transmission media might receive the data signal, each distinguishable color as detected by each photoreceptor corresponding to a combination of emitted colors. A computing system might autonomously convert the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values into a converted data signal that is compatible with a receiving device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
sending, with a photo-transmitter system of a chromatic transient state data transmission system and over a segment of an optical transmission medium, a data signal comprising a series of chromabit values, by emitting, using a set of colored light emitters of the photo-transmitter system of the chromatic transient state data transmission system, a combination of colors representing each chromabit value;
receiving, with a photo-receiver system of the chromatic transient state data transmission system that is communicatively coupled to the photo-transmitter system via the segment of the optical transmission medium, the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values, wherein each distinguishable color as detected by each photoreceptor of one or more photoreceptors of the photo-receiver system corresponds to a combination of colors emitted by the set of colored light emitters of the photo-transmitter system; and
autonomously converting, with a computing system of the chromatic transient state data transmission system, the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values into a converted data signal that is compatible with a receiving device with which the chromatic transient state data transmission system is connected.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the optical transmission medium comprises at least one fiber optic cable.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more photoreceptors each comprises one of a phototransistor or a set of photoresistors and an array of transistors.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of colored light emitters each comprises one of a set of colored laser emitters or a set of colored light emitting diodes (“LEDs”), wherein each set of colored laser emitters comprises three or more differently colored laser emitters, and wherein each set of colored LEDs comprises three or more differently colored LEDs.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein each set of colored light emitters comprises three or more of a red light emitter, an orange light emitter, a yellow light emitter, a green light emitter, a cyan light emitter, a blue light emitter, or a violet light emitter.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein each set of colored light emitters represents 8 possible states, each possible state representing a possible chromabit value.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein intensity of each colored light emitter is controllable based on input current, wherein a range of light intensity produced by changing input current to each colored light emitter results in a series of distinguishable colors each representing a chromabit value.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein each set of colored light emitters represents 216 possible states, each possible state representing a possible chromabit value.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein each set of colored light emitters represents 4,096 possible states, each possible state representing a possible chromabit value.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein each set of colored light emitters represents 16,777,216 possible states, each possible state representing a possible chromabit value.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sending, with a transmitting device and to the photo-transmitter system of the chromatic transient state data transmission system to which the transmitting device is connected, an initial data signal;
receiving, with the photo-transmitter system, the initial data signal; and
autonomously converting, with the computing system of the chromatic transient state data transmission system, the initial data signal to the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein autonomously converting the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values into the converted data signal that is compatible with the receiving device with which the chromatic transient state data transmission system is connected comprises:
determining, with the computing system of the chromatic transient state data transmission system, whether the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values is compatible with the receiving device; and
based on a determination that the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values is not compatible with the receiving device, autonomously converting, with the computing system of the chromatic transient state data transmission system, the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values into the converted data signal that is compatible with the receiving device with which the chromatic transient state data transmission system is connected.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving device comprises a repeater transmission system, wherein autonomously converting the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values into the converted data signal that is compatible with the receiving device with which the chromatic transient state data transmission system is connected comprises:
sending, with a photo-transmitter system of the repeater transmission system and over a second segment of the optical transmission medium, a relayed data signal comprising a series of chromabit values, the relayed data signal being the same as the data signal.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving device performs one or more computing operations using the converted data signal.

15. A chromatic transient state data transmission system, comprising:
a photo-transmitter system, comprising:
at least one set of colored light emitters;
wherein a first set of computing instructions causes the photo-transmitter system to:
send, over a segment of an optical transmission medium, a data signal comprising a series of chromabit values, by emitting, using the at least one set of colored light emitters, a combination of colors representing each chromabit value;

a photo-receiver system that is communicatively coupled to the photo-transmitter system via the segment of the optical transmission medium, the photo-receiver system comprising:
at least one set of photoreceptors;
wherein a second set of computing instructions causes the photo-receiver system to:
receive, using the at least one set of photoreceptors, the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values, wherein each distinguishable color as detected by each photoreceptor of the at least one set of photoreceptors corresponds to a combination of colors emitted by the at least one set of colored light emitters of the photo-transmitter system;

a computing system, comprising:
at least one processor; and
a non-transitory computer readable medium communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, the non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer software comprising a third set of computing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the computing system to:
determine whether the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values is compatible with a receiving device with which the chromatic transient state data transmission system is connected;
based on a determination that the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values is compatible with the receiving device, autonomously relay the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values to the receiving device; and
based on a determination that the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values is not compatible with the receiving device, autonomously convert the data signal comprising the series of chromabit values into a converted data signal that is compatible with the receiving device.

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Assignees

• Centurylink Ip Llc

Inventors

• Carpenter Philip W
• Lewis Ronald A

Classifications

• H05B45/20

  Controlling the colour of the light · CPC title

• G06E3/00

  Devices not provided for in group G06E1/00, e.g. for processing analogue or hybrid data · CPC title

• H05B33/0869 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06N10/00

  Quantum computing, i.e. information processing based on quantum-mechanical phenomena · CPC title

• H05B47/19

  via wireless transmission · CPC title