Method and apparatus for providing a broadband wireless, communications network
AssigneeSarnoff Corporation
InventorsRobert Conrad Malkemes, Henry Sedwick Miiller
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for providing a broadband, wireless network comprising residential communications gateway that accepts all incoming communications signals and securely broadcasts those signals throughout a residence. Each communications appliance within the residence is outfitted with a receiver that decodes the broadcast signals and couples the signals to the input terminals of the associated communications appliance. The system is completely “plug-and-play” such that a user can quickly and easily utilize the gateway for many communications appliances.
Claims30
Apparatus for providing a wireless local area network comprising:
- a gateway for receiving a plurality of signals, selecting specific signals from said plurality of signals and transmitting the selected signals through an antenna;
- a receiver for receiving said transmitted signals and for converting the transmitted signal into a format that is compatible with a network appliance.
Apparatus for providing a wireless local area network comprising:
- a plurality of tuner modules;
- a plurality of demodulators coupled to said tuner modules;
- at least one decoder coupled to said plurality of demodulators;
- a transmitter portion for modulating and transmitting a forward signal;
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- a receiver portion coupled to said gateway firewall for receiving commands from a network appliance to request one of said plurality of tuner modules to select a particular channel for transmission as a forward signal.
A method of providing a wireless local area network comprising:
- receiving a channel selection signal from a network appliance;
- selecting a channel of information from a plurality of channels in response to said channel selection signal;
- demodulating and decoding a signal in said selected channel;
- encoding and modulating said signal to produce an M-ary signal;
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- transmitting said M-ary signal to said network appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.