Home phone line networking next generation enhancements
First Claim
1. A backwards-compatible home phone line network transmitter for communicating over a home network that supports both new version devices and old version devices, the backwards-compatible home phone line network transmitter comprising:
- digital processing circuitry for producing data bits corresponding to home networking frames for transmission over the home network;
a baseband encoder that constellation encodes the data bits corresponding to the home networking frames to form a digitally modulated signal;
a transmit filter coupled to receive the digitally modulated signal, the transmit filter transmit filtering the digitally modulated signal to produce a transmit signal, wherein the transmit signal has a sloping power spectral density (PSD) that meets signal format requirements of both an old version signal and a new version signal, wherein the sloping PSD of the transmit signal produced by the transmit filter slopes downward as frequency increases in a new version frequency band, wherein the new version frequency band is wider than and overlays an old version frequency band.
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Abstract
New version devices of a home phone line network may operate on a first carrier frequency (within the new version frequency band) while old version devices may operate at a second carrier frequency (within the old version frequency band). Preamble, header, and trailer portions of a new version signal include a plurality of spectral copies of a baseband modulated signal. One or more of these spectral copies of the baseband modulated signal is/are indistinguishable from corresponding components of an old version signal. The new version signal is transmit filtered to have a negatively sloping power spectral density in order to maintain a constant power level in relation to old version signals and to have slope that is opposite of binder crosstalk so as to form, with the average crosstalk, a constant level white noise floor.
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24 Claims
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1. A backwards-compatible home phone line network transmitter for communicating over a home network that supports both new version devices and old version devices, the backwards-compatible home phone line network transmitter comprising:
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digital processing circuitry for producing data bits corresponding to home networking frames for transmission over the home network; a baseband encoder that constellation encodes the data bits corresponding to the home networking frames to form a digitally modulated signal; a transmit filter coupled to receive the digitally modulated signal, the transmit filter transmit filtering the digitally modulated signal to produce a transmit signal, wherein the transmit signal has a sloping power spectral density (PSD) that meets signal format requirements of both an old version signal and a new version signal, wherein the sloping PSD of the transmit signal produced by the transmit filter slopes downward as frequency increases in a new version frequency band, wherein the new version frequency band is wider than and overlays an old version frequency band. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for forming a backwards-compatible home networking signal by a new version device in a home network, the method comprising:
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forming a new version signal spanning a new version frequency band that overlaps an old version frequency band; and filtering the new version signal to produce a sloping power spectral density (PSD) that meets signal format requirements for an old version signal, the new version signal having a sloping PSD that slopes downward as frequency increases. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. In a wire home phone line communication network that supports a plurality of legacy devices that communicate with signals having a first bandwidth and a first power spectral density (PSD), a method for forming a new version signal for a next generation home phone line network device, comprising:
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generating a new version signal having a new version signal bandwidth that is wider than an old version signal bandwidth and wherein the new version signal bandwidth overlaps the old version signal bandwidth; wherein the new version signal is formed with a transmit filter mask and has a sloping PSD with a downward slope as frequency increases in the new version bandwidth wherein the slope is equal to in magnitude and opposite in slope to the gain of crosstalk from at least one neighboring signal of at least one neighboring signal line coupled within a common binder of a plurality of signal lines; and transmit filtering the sloping PSD of the new version signal to have a specified PSD characteristic wherein a total transmit power does not violate an old version signal PSD requirement. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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20. A method for transmitting a new version signal in a wired home phone line network that includes a plurality of legacy devices that transmit old version signals, as well as a plurality of next generation devices that transmit new version signals, the method comprising:
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generating an old version signal format having a header portion and a payload portion, wherein the header portion including a ID of one of the plurality of legacy devices for which the payload is intended, the header portion being transmitted at a fixed data rate; and the payload portion having a first variable data rate; generating a new version signal format having a header portion and a payload portion, wherein the header portion including ID of one of the plurality of next generation devices for which the payload is intended, the header portion being transmitted at the fixed data rate and the payload portion being transmitted at a second variable data rate; and transmit filtering the new version signal to produce a power spectral density (PSD) that enables one of the plurality of legacy devices to detect and read the header portion of the new version signal to determine that the corresponding payload is for another device. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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