Method and apparatus for detecting transmitters for a white space device
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsPaul Gothard Knutson, Wen Gao, Benyuan Zhang, Hou-Shin Chen
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Abstract
The invention relates to a wireless home gateway apparatus and methods of wirelessly delivering audio and/or video programs between a home gateway and a client and mitigating interference thereon. Specifically, the present invention relates to transmitting an audio/video program on two white space channels and alternately stopping transmission on one of said channels to search for external transmissions on the white space channel. The present invention permits the wireless home gateway to continuously transmit an audio/video program to a client while periodically searching for transmitters on each of the white space channels.
Claims13
An apparatus comprising:
- a first transmitter configured to transmit an audio/video program at a first frequency;
- a second transmitter configured to transmit said audio/video program at a second frequency;
- a detector configured to detect external transmission, by a transmitter external to the apparatus, at said first frequency and said second frequency;
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- wherein said detector is operative to detect said external transmission during a first time period at said first frequency when said first transmitter stops transmitting said audio/video program and said second transmitter is transmitting said audio/video program at said second frequency, and to detect said external transmission during a second time period at said second frequency when said second transmitter stops transmitting said audio/video program and said first transmitter is transmitting said audio/video program at said first frequency, wherein said first frequency and said second frequency are white space channels, further wherein said first time period and said second time period occur at different times, and further wherein transmission over said first frequency and transmission over said second frequency provide parallel uninterrupted transmission of said audio/video program.
A method performed by an apparatus comprising:
- transmitting, by a first transmitter, an audio/video program at a first frequency;
- transmitting, by a second transmitter, said audio/video program at a second frequency;
- detecting, by a detector, an external transmission by a transmitter external to the apparatus, at said first frequency and at said second frequency;
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- wherein said detecting attempts to detect said external transmission during a first time period at said first frequency when said first transmitter stops transmitting said audio/video program and said second transmitter is transmitting said audio/video program at said second frequency, and to detect said external transmission during a second time period at said second frequency when said second transmitter stops transmitting said audio/video program and said first transmitter is transmitting said audio/video program at said first frequency, wherein said first frequency and said second frequency are white space channels, further wherein said first time period and said second time period occur at different times, and further wherein transmission over said first frequency and transmission over said second frequency provide parallel uninterrupted transmission of said audio/video program.
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