Remote link adapter for use in TV broadcast data transmission system
First Claim
1. In a high speed digital information transmission system in which multi megabit per second digital data is addressably broadcast using contiguous bandwidth in a television channel to a remote site, a remote link adapter comprisinga hybrid interface for receiving and demodulating a multi megabit per second digitally encoded signal to verify an address and obtain the transmitted digital data, said hybrid interface providing a full duplex asymmetric network connection which is constructed from independent forward and return transmission channels in two directions,a user interface for providing said digital data to data terminal equipment,microprocessor control means for controlling said hybrid interface in accordance with protocols for controlling the flow of said digital data and the addressing in the forward and return transmission channels, anda bus interconnecting said user interface, said hybrid interface, and said microprocessor control means.
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Abstract
A hybrid transmission system is provided to transmit and receive high-speed digital information in the form of variable length packets using standard television practices and components. The basic building block of this hybrid digital transmission system is the device at the remote location that receives the analog broadcast TV-like signal processed by a standard vestigial sideband video modulator. This device decodes the digital information from the signal and then passes it along as digital information to any form of a data terminal equipment or computer.
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1. In a high speed digital information transmission system in which multi megabit per second digital data is addressably broadcast using contiguous bandwidth in a television channel to a remote site, a remote link adapter comprising
a hybrid interface for receiving and demodulating a multi megabit per second digitally encoded signal to verify an address and obtain the transmitted digital data, said hybrid interface providing a full duplex asymmetric network connection which is constructed from independent forward and return transmission channels in two directions, a user interface for providing said digital data to data terminal equipment, microprocessor control means for controlling said hybrid interface in accordance with protocols for controlling the flow of said digital data and the addressing in the forward and return transmission channels, and a bus interconnecting said user interface, said hybrid interface, and said microprocessor control means.
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