A transceiver having shared and discrete components forming a transmit path and a receive path configured to couple to a subscriber line for establishing a communication channel with a remote transceiver. The transceiver comprises a pseudo link manager coupled between the transmit and receive path components...http://www.google.com/patents/US20090190636?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20090190636 - Method and apparatus for managing XDSL pseudo links