US 2003/0114153 A1 · Universal broadband home network for scalable IEEE 802.11 based wireless and wireline networking

Abstract

The present home networking method and system is based on the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking standard expanded to encompass home phone line media communication and/or home power line media communication operation seamlessly. For each station in home network (i.e., wireless, phone line and power line), the protocol stack at the PHY layer and above, QoS, and network security are all based on the 802.11 standard. Chipset implementations differ in an applied analog interface that is specific to the respective medium. Station-to-station transmission between wireless and wired terminals is enabled via an intelligent access point which includes an analog interface for each of the medium types. Further, each station can be configured with the appropriate analog interface to communicate directly with any wireless station. The access point is also expandable to form extended service sets.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system of networking wireless and wireline communications, comprising:

a plurality of transmission mediums operable for data transmission in a home environment;
a plurality of station types operable to communication through said plurality of transmission mediums, each of said station types is operable to communicate through one of said plurality of transmission mediums;
an access point realized within the home environment and operable to communication through each of said plurality of transmission mediums, said access point operable to coordinate communication between disparate station types through corresponding ones of said plurality of transmission mediums.

A system of networking communications through wireless and wireline transmission mediums, comprising:

a first plurality of wireless user stations adapted to transceive data through the wireless transmission medium;
a first plurality of wireline user stations adapted to transceive data through the wireline transmission medium;
and
an access point in communication with each of said first plurality of wireless user stations and said first plurality of wireline user stations and adapted to coordinate communication there between through respective transmission mediums, said access point including;
a first baseband physical layer operatively compatible with the wireless transmission medium;
a second baseband physical layer operatively compatible with the wireline transmission medium;
a media access control operatively compatible with the wireless and wireline transmission mediums and coupled to said first baseband physical layer and said second baseband physical layer, said media access control adapted to provide protocol and control of data transfer to and from said baseband layers.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/299,729Filed 19 Nov 2002

Priority

20 Nov 2001

Published

19 Jun 2003

Term ends

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Classification19 codes

H04L 12/2832
Processing of data at an internetworking point of a home automation network: interconnection of the control functionalities between home networks
H04B 3/542
Systems for transmission via power distribution lines: the information being in digital form
H04L 12/2803
Characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks]: home automation networks
H04L 69/18
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass:…

Universal broadband home network for scalable IEEE 802.11 based wireless and wireline networking

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Universal broadband home network for scalable IEEE 802.11 based wireless and wireline networking

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Abstract

Claims20