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US 2018/0323864 A1Published application
Method And System For A Mesh Network Based On Availability of Satellite Reception Assemblies
AssigneeMaxLinear, Inc.
InventorsCurtis Ling, Timothy Gallagher, Glenn Chang
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Abstract
A satellite reception assembly that provides satellite television and/or radio service to a customer premises may comprise a wireless interface via which it can communicate with other satellite reception assemblies. Wireless connections between satellite reception assemblies may be utilized for providing satellite content between different satellite customer premises. Wireless connections between satellite reception assemblies may be utilized for offloading traffic from other network connections.
Claims17
A system comprising:
- a first satellite reception assembly and a second satellite reception assembly, wherein
- said first satellite reception assembly and said second satellite reception assembly are configured such that a satellite signal received via a satellite broadcast receiver of said first satellite reception assembly can be delivered to said second satellite reception assembly via a wireless connection when said first satellite reception assembly has resources available for reception of said satellite signal to be delivered to said second satellite reception assembly.
A system comprising:
- a first satellite reception assembly and a second satellite reception assembly, wherein
- said first satellite reception assembly and said second satellite reception assembly are configured such that a satellite signal received via a satellite broadcast receiver of said first satellite reception assembly can be delivered to said second satellite reception assembly via a wireless connection if said second satellite reception assembly has a spare low noise block downconverter (LNB) path for reception of said satellite signal.
A system comprising:
- a first satellite reception assembly and a second satellite reception assembly, wherein
- said first satellite reception assembly and said second satellite reception assembly are configured such that data received from a client device via an interface of said first satellite reception assembly can be delivered to said second satellite reception assembly via said wireless connection in response to failure of a network connection that serves said client device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.