ISD CONTROLLED SET-TOP BOX

• US 20020012353A1
• Filed: 12/31/1997
• Published: 01/31/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1997
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: GERSZBERG, IRWIN, MARTIN, JEFFREY S., WALLACE, EDWARD L., WALKER, HOPETON S.
• Application Number:
  US09/001,424
• Publication Number:
  US 20020012353A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/419
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2221 being a cable television head-end CATV in broadcast systems H04H20/78
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4185 for payment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN

Abstract

A DSL telephone connected set-top device.

Claims

1. A system comprising a caching server downloading multicast data to a plurality of DSL connected multiplexing devices for multiplexing data and voice over a twisted pair wire wherein the device includes a processor functioning as a proxy server.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the plurality of DSL connected devices include a processor configured as a proxy server for allowing Internet browsing