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Method and system for supporting multiple services with a subscriber optical interface located outside a subscriber's premises

  • US 7,529,485 B2
  • Filed: 12/18/2003
  • Issued: 05/05/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for formatting programming for a television coupled to an optical network comprising:

  • receiving an optical signal from the optical network comprising digital and analog programming with a subscriber optical interface contained within a first housing;

    converting the optical signal into an electrical domain with the subscriber optical interface;

    receiving a wireless request with a control interface from a wireless remote controller, the control interface contained within a second housing separate from the first housing;

    converting the wireless request into an electrical domain with a wireless receiver that is part of the control interface, the wireless request being formed into an electrical request;

    relaying the electrical request from the control interface in the electrical domain over an electrical waveguide to the subscriber optical interface;

    receiving the electrical request from the control interface with the subscriber optical interface to tune the television to a first channel contained within the electrical domain of the converted optical signal;

    processing the electrical request from the control interface with the subscriber optical interface; and

    instructing the remote controller with the subscriber optical interface via the control interface to tune to a second channel comprising programming of the first channel.

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