Receive device for a cable data service

• US 8,000,331 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2010
• Issued: 08/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Desai, Bhavesh N., Shankaranarayanan, Nemmara K., Shur, David Hilton, Smiljanic, Aleksandra, Totland, Todd L., Van Der Merwe, Jacobus, Woodward, Sheryl Leigh
• Primary Examiner(s): Mills, Donald L
• Application Number:
  US12/766,085
• Publication Number:
  US 20100265942A1
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/395.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2801 Broadband local area networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2856 Access arrangements, e.g. Internet access asynchronous transfer mode networks H04L12/5601; broadband local area networks H04L12/2801; optical access or distribution networks H04Q11/0067; access to open networks H04L12/5691; digital subscriber line end-user equipment and bit-level processing of data on a PSTN-based network H04M11/00; home network gateways H04L12/2834; wireless access networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2861 Point-to-multipoint connection from the data network to the subscribers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2898 Subscriber equipments DSL modems H04M11/062; cable modems H04L12/2801
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/14 Channel dividing arrangements , i.e. in which a single bit stream is divided between several baseband channels and reassembled at the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/14 Multichannel or multilink protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A receive device includes a plurality of demodulators and a tunnel destination. The demodulators are configured to receive multiple data streams, each of the multiple data streams having a bit rate that is lower than a bit rate of a transmit data stream. The tunnel destination is configured to recombine the multiple data streams to provide a receive data stream having a bit rate equal to the bit rate of the transmit data stream. At least one of multiple radio frequency channels is connected to a legacy user between a transmit site and the receive device.

Claims

1. A receive device for receiving a transmit data stream from a transmit device over a cable network having multiple radio frequency channels, the transmit data stream divided into multiple data streams, the receive device comprising:

a plurality of demodulators configured to receive the multiple data streams, each of the multiple data streams having a bit rate that is lower than a bit rate of the transmit data stream; and

a tunnel destination configured to recombine the multiple data streams to provide a receive data stream having a bit rate equal to the bit rate of the transmit data stream,

wherein at least one of the radio frequency channels is connected to a legacy user between the transmit device and the receive device.

2. A receive device for receiving a transmit data stream from a transmit site over a cable network having multiple radio frequency channels, the transmit data stream divided into multiple data streams, the receive device comprising:

a plurality of demodulators configured to receive the multiple data streams, each of the multiple data streams having a bit rate that is lower than a bit rate of the transmit data stream; and

a tunnel destination configured to recombine the multiple data streams to provide a receive data stream having a bit rate equal to the bit rate of the transmit data stream,

wherein at least one of the radio frequency channels has connections to a plurality of legacy users and the connections are between the transmit site and the receive device.