BROADBAND DEMODULATOR FOR MODIFIED DOWNSTREAM WAVEFORM
First Claim
1. A terminal to receive a wireless signal from a satellite, the terminal comprising:
- a receiver unit configured to receive the wireless signal transmitted via the satellite;
a header processing unit, communicatively coupled with the receiver unit, and configured to;
receive a digitized stream comprising a physical layer signal representative of the received wireless signal, the digitized stream including a plurality of physical layer headers spaced substantially equidistant in time and each associated with a respective physical layer payload;
analyze the digitized stream to detect a first header identifier identifying a first physical layer header portion of the digitized stream;
demodulate and decode the first physical layer header portion to identify a first sub-channel identifier for an associated first physical layer payload;
determine a search location in the digitized stream for a second header identifier detection analysis; and
omit an identifier detection analysis in the digitized stream at one or more known header identifier locations between the first physical layer header portion and the search location, based at least in part on the first sub-channel identifier; and
a filter unit, communicatively coupled with the header detection unit, and configured to exclude from demodulation or decoding one or more physical layer payloads in the digitized stream associated with the omitted identifier detection analysis locations.
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Abstract
Systems, devices, processors, and methods are described for the transmission and reception of broadband signals between a gateway and subscriber terminals via satellite. In one set of embodiments, a wireless signal is generated and transmitted including a series of frames including a physical layer header and payload. A sub-channel identifier may be included in the physical layer header to identify the sub-channel for the payload, and allow for various novel filtering techniques at the subscriber terminal. The frames may be generated to be of substantially equal duration. Novel subscriber terminal configurations are described to leverage this formatting.
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25 Claims
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1. A terminal to receive a wireless signal from a satellite, the terminal comprising:
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a receiver unit configured to receive the wireless signal transmitted via the satellite; a header processing unit, communicatively coupled with the receiver unit, and configured to; receive a digitized stream comprising a physical layer signal representative of the received wireless signal, the digitized stream including a plurality of physical layer headers spaced substantially equidistant in time and each associated with a respective physical layer payload; analyze the digitized stream to detect a first header identifier identifying a first physical layer header portion of the digitized stream; demodulate and decode the first physical layer header portion to identify a first sub-channel identifier for an associated first physical layer payload; determine a search location in the digitized stream for a second header identifier detection analysis; and omit an identifier detection analysis in the digitized stream at one or more known header identifier locations between the first physical layer header portion and the search location, based at least in part on the first sub-channel identifier; and a filter unit, communicatively coupled with the header detection unit, and configured to exclude from demodulation or decoding one or more physical layer payloads in the digitized stream associated with the omitted identifier detection analysis locations. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A processor for processing a digitized representation of a wireless signal received from a satellite, the processor comprising:
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a header processing unit configured to; receive a digitized stream comprising a physical layer signal representative of the received wireless signal, the digitized stream including a plurality of physical layer headers spaced substantially equidistant in time and each associated with a respective physical layer payload; analyze the digitized stream to detect a first header identifier identifying a first physical layer header portion of the digitized stream; demodulate and decode the first physical layer header portion to identify a first sub-channel identifier for an associated first physical layer payload; determine one or more subsequent headers having different sub-channel identifiers from the first sub-channel identifier, the determination based at least in part on the first sub-channel identifier; and omit a header identifier detection analysis at known header identifier locations for the determined one or more subsequent headers; and a filter unit, communicatively coupled with the header detection unit, and configured to exclude from demodulation or decoding one or more physical layer payloads in the digitized stream associated with the determined one or more subsequent headers.
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15. A satellite communications system comprising:
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a gateway configured to transmit a wireless signal sent to a satellite for retransmission to a terminal; the satellite, communicatively coupled with the terminal and the gateway, and configured to receive the wireless signal from the gateway and retransmit the received signal to the terminal; and the terminal comprising; a receiver unit configured to receive the wireless signal transmitted via the satellite; a header processing unit configured to; receive a digitized stream comprising a physical layer signal representative of the received signal, the digitized stream including a plurality of physical layer headers spaced substantially equidistant in time and each associated with a respective physical layer payload; analyze the digitized stream to detect a first header identifier identifying a first physical layer header portion of the digitized stream; demodulate and decode the first physical layer header portion to identify a first sub-channel identifier for an associated first physical layer payload; determine, based at least in part on the first sub-channel identifier, one or more subsequent header identifier locations in the digitized stream that have different sub-channel identifiers from the first sub-channel identifier; and omit an identifier detection analysis at the determined one or more header identifier locations; and a filter unit communicatively coupled with the header detection unit, and configured to exclude from demodulation or decoding a physical layer payload located in the digitized stream and associated with the different sub-channel identifiers.
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16. A method of processing a digital representation of a wireless signal received from a satellite, the method comprising:
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detecting a first header identifier identifying a physical layer header portion of a digitized stream, the digitized stream comprising a physical layer signal representative of the received wireless signal from the satellite; demodulating and decoding the first physical layer header portion to identify a first sub-channel identifier associated with a first physical layer payload; identifying the first physical layer payload as a portion of the digitized stream to be demodulated and decoded based at least in part on the first sub-channel identifier; identifying, based at least in part on the first sub-channel identifier, other physical layer payloads of the digitized stream associated with different sub-channel identifiers from the first sub-channel identifier; and filtering the digitized stream to prevent demodulation or decoding of the identified other physical layer payloads associated with the different sub-channel identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A terminal to receive a wireless signal from a satellite, the terminal comprising:
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a receiver unit configured to receive the wireless signal transmitted via the satellite; a header processing unit, communicatively coupled with the receiver unit, and configured to; receive a digitized stream comprising a physical layer signal representative of the received wireless signal; demodulate and decode a first header portion of the digitized stream to thereby identify a first sub-channel identifier for a first physical layer payload associated with the first header portion; and identify, based on the first sub-channel identifier, other physical layer headers of the digitized stream associated with different sub-channel identifiers from the first sub-channel identifier; and a filter unit, communicatively coupled with the header detection unit and receiver unit, and configured to exclude from demodulation or decoding each physical layer payload associated with the identified different sub-channel identifiers.
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