US 2001/0033585 A1 · Arrangement for managing multiple telephone lines terminating at a single location

Abstract

An arrangement for controlling multiple telephone lines terminating in a single residence uses a multiplexer within a communications gateway and a plurality of demultiplexers, each demultiplexer coupled to a separate one of telephone lines. The communications gateway functions to convert all received analog telephony signals into a digital format and then multiplexes the digital signals onto a single telephone line connected to the residence. The various telephone lines in the residence are connected in series along the line, using a number of drop-off points. The demultiplexer on each telephone line is configured to recognize the time slots within the multiplexed signal destined for its associated telecommunications device. In a similar fashion, separate time slots are assigned for upstream transmission from each telecommunication device into the HFC network.

Claims10

Dependent claims

In a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network, an arrangement for providing communication between one or more remote telecommunication devices and a plurality of N telecommunication devices in a single location, the arrangement comprising

a communications gateway disposed at an interface between the HFC network and the single location, the communications gateway for receiving a plurality of incoming analog telecommunications signals and converting said signals into digital signals, said communications gateway comprising
a multiplexer for combining the plurality of incoming digital telecommunication signals into a single output signal;
a plurality of N demultiplexers, each demultiplexer associated with a separate one of the plurality of N telecommunications devices, said plurality of N demultiplexers disposed along a single signal path and coupled at an end termination to the output from said communications gateway multiplexer.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

09/752,893Filed 29 Dec 2000

Priority

30 Dec 1999

Published

25 Oct 2001

Term ends

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Classification16 codes

H04Q 11/04
Selecting arrangements for multiplex systems: for time-division multiplexing
H04J 3/0605
Systems characterised by the synchronising information used: special codes used as synchronising signal
H04J 3/1694
In which the time allocation to individual channels within a transmission cycle is variable, e.g. to accommodate varying complexity of signals,…
H04Q 2213/13012
Indexing scheme relating to selecting arrangements in general and for multiplex systems: hybrid fiber coax, HFC

Arrangement for managing multiple telephone lines terminating at a single location

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Arrangement for managing multiple telephone lines terminating at a single location

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Abstract

Claims10