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US 12,609,846 B2Granted
USB to coax bridge
OwnerInderjit Singh, Branislav Petrovicinventors
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Abstract
A USB-to-coaxial network bridging system and method includes receiving data frames from a USB or FireWire device via a corresponding USB or FireWire communication interface, wherein the received data frames are intended for transmittal to a predetermined remote device on a coaxial network; combining the received data frames into an aggregated frame and addressing the aggregated frame to allow the aggregated frame to be routed to the predetermined remote device on the coaxial network; and sending the aggregated frame to the remote device over the coaxial network.
Claims16
A system, comprising:
- a USB interface;
- a coax interface that is separate from the USB interface;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive a probe packet, via the USB interface, from a local USB device,
- broadcast the probe packet, via the coax interface, over a coaxial network,
- receive a reply, via the coax interface, from a predetermined remote USB device,
- examine the reply from the predetermined remote USB device to determine whether the reply meets criteria in the probe packet,
- in response to determining that the reply meets the criteria in the probe packet, receive data frames, via the USB interface, from the local USB device,
- combine the data frames into an aggregated frame,
- add a coaxial network frame header into the aggregated frame, wherein the coaxial network frame header comprises an IP address or an MAC address of the predetermined remote USB device,
- address the aggregated frame to the predetermined remote USB device,
- send the aggregated frame to the predetermined remote USB device over the coaxial network, and
- address the aggregated frame by adding a MoCA frame header to the aggregated frame.
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A method, comprising:
- receive a probe packet, via the USB interface, from a local USB device,
- broadcasting the probe packet, via a coax interface, over a coaxial network, wherein the coax interface is separate from the USB interface,
- receiving a reply, via the coax interface, from a predetermined remote USB device,
- examining the reply from the predetermined remote USB device to determine whether the reply meets criteria in the probe packet,
- in response to determining that the reply meets the criteria in the probe packet, receiving data frames, via the USB interface, from the local USB device,
- combining the data frames into an aggregated frame,
- adding a coaxial network frame header into the aggregated frame, wherein the coaxial network frame header comprises an IP address or an MAC address of the predetermined remote USB device,
- addressing the aggregated frame to the predetermined remote USB device,
- sending the aggregated frame to the predetermined remote USB device over the coaxial network, and
- addressing the aggregated frame by adding a MoCA frame header to the aggregated frame.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.