Wireless cable networking gateway and Wi-Fi system incorporating the same
First Claim
1. A wireless cable networking gateway, comprising:
- a wireless transceiver for transferring data between wireless and wireline domains;
wide-area and premises cable interfaces for coupling said wireless cable networking gateway to respective wide-area and premises cable networks; and
channel insertion and extraction circuitry, coupling said wireless transceiver, said wide-area cable interface and said premises cable interface, that routes said data between said wireless transceiver and at least a portion of a television channel to be transmitted across at least said premises cable interface, remaining television channels being transmitted from said wide-area cable interface to said premises cable interface.
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Abstract
A wireless cable networking gateway, a method of wireless cable networking and a Wi-Fi system incorporating the gateway or the method. In one embodiment, the gateway includes: (1) a wireless transceiver for transferring data between wireless and wireline domains, (2) wide-area and premises cable interfaces for coupling the wireless cable networking gateway to respective wide-area and premises cable networks and (3) channel insertion and extraction circuitry, coupling the wireless transceiver, the wide-area cable interface and the premises cable interface, that routes the data between the wireless transceiver and at least a portion of a television channel to be transmitted across at least the premises cable interface, remaining television channels being transmitted from the wide-area cable interface to the premises cable interface.
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1. A wireless cable networking gateway, comprising:
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a wireless transceiver for transferring data between wireless and wireline domains;
wide-area and premises cable interfaces for coupling said wireless cable networking gateway to respective wide-area and premises cable networks; and
channel insertion and extraction circuitry, coupling said wireless transceiver, said wide-area cable interface and said premises cable interface, that routes said data between said wireless transceiver and at least a portion of a television channel to be transmitted across at least said premises cable interface, remaining television channels being transmitted from said wide-area cable interface to said premises cable interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of wireless cable networking, comprising:
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transferring data between wireless and wireline domains;
routing said data to and from at least a portion of a television channel to be transmitted across at least a premises cable interface; and
transmitting remaining television channels from a wide-area cable interface to said premises cable interface. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A Wi-Fi system, comprising:
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a premises cable network, including;
a television cable backbone, and at least one television set coupled to said television cable backbone;
a wireless cable networking gateway coupled to said premises cable network and including;
a Wi-Fi transceiver for transferring digital data to and from an IEEE 802.11 domain, digital/analog conversion circuitry, coupled to said Wi-Fi transceiver, for converting data from and into said digital data, a wide-area cable interface for coupling said wireless cable networking gateway to a wide-area cable network, and channel insertion and extraction circuitry, coupling said digital/analog conversion circuitry, said wide-area cable interface and said premises cable network, that routes said data between said wireless transceiver and at least a portion of a television channel to be transmitted across at least said premises cable network, remaining television channels being transmitted from said wide-area cable interface to said premises cable network; and
at least one Wi-Fi device, wirelessly coupled to said Wi-Fi transceiver, for communicating said digital data therewith and to said at least one television set. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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