Apparatus and method for generating and transmitting an RF modulated signal having a modulation frequency within the AM and/or FM band

• US 20020098813A1
• Filed: 11/01/2001
• Published: 07/25/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: George Likourezos, Michael A. Scaturro
• Original Assignee: George Likourezos, Michael A. Scaturro
• Inventors: Likourezos, George, Scaturro, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US10/015,904
• Publication Number:
  US 20020098813A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/93
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/04 Circuits

Abstract

An apparatus is provided capable of wirelessly receiving an RF signal having a modulation frequency outside the AM and FM band and containing baseband audio content, such as Internet audio content, converting the signal to an RF modulated signal having a modulation frequency within the AM and/or FM band, and transmitting the RF modulated signal having a modulation frequency within the AM and/or FM band to a conventional AM/FM radio or stereo equipment to audibly reproduce the baseband audio content. The apparatus is also capable of receiving a hardwired signal including audio content, such as an Internet audio signal, modulate the audio content to an RF modulated signal having a modulation frequency within the AM and/or FM band, and transmitting the RF modulated signal to a conventional AM/FM radio or stereo equipment to audibly reproduce the audio content.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving an RF modulated signal having a modulation frequency outside the AM and FM band and containing baseband audio content;

means for converting the received RF modulated signal into an RF modulated signal having a modulation frequency within the AM and/or FM band; and

means for transmitting the RF modulated signal having a modulation frequency within the AM and/or FM band to an audio reproduction apparatus for audibly reproducing the baseband audio content.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the baseband audio content is Internet audio content.