Digital wireless phone/modem jack capable of communications over the power lines using differential binary phase shift keying (DBPSK)

• US 6,567,474 B1
• Filed: 03/02/1999
• Issued: 05/20/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Low Environ AG LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Phonex Broadband Corp.
• Inventors: Bullock, Scott R., Smith, Scott D., Bartholomew, David B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Liu, Shuwang
• Application Number:
  US09/260,868
• Time in Patent Office: 1,540 Days
• Field of Search: 375/271, 375/223, 375/279, 375/273, 375/283, 375/308, 375/329, 375/330, 375/331, 375/332, 375/295, 455/23, 332/103, 340/310.01, 340/310.02, 329/304
• US Class Current: 375/279
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5441 Wireless systems or telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/54 Systems for transmission via power distribution lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/56 Circuits for coupling, blocking, or by-passing of signals

Abstract

A system for communicating signals between a transmitter and a receiver using digital modulation techniques is provided. This invention is particularly adapted to meet the requirements of power line communication. In one preferred embodiment of this invention the modulation technique is differential binary phase shift key modulation. This system provides a low cost, simple delay and multiply process for the modulation and demodulation of data. This system lends itself to an ASIC implementation, thereby further reducing the cost of the system while improving the reliability of the system in a noisy environment.

Claims

1. A communication system for communicating signals and data, comprising:

(A) a differential modulator receiving an analog signal and producing a modulated signal, wherein said differential modulator further comprises;

(1) a frame buffer receiving said analog signal and producing a clocked data stream;

(2) a toggle block receiving said clocked data stream and producing an alternating signal based on said clocked data stream; and

(3) a multiplier receiving said alternating signal and producing said modulated signal;

(B) a transmitter receiving said modulated signal and transmitting a transmitted signal over a communication channel;

(C) a receiver receiving said transmitted signal over said communication channel and producing an output signal; and

(D) a demodulator receiving said output signal and producing a data output signal for use by a communication device.