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Source adaptive digital subscriber line and method

US6763097B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 12, 2001
Grant dateJul 13, 2004
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Expiry dateApr 12, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L12/66
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A communication system includes a plurality of subscribers having a telephone set and different types of home modems coupled using twisted pairs to a local server that includes a plurality of downstream repeaters, a central office coupled to a local server using twisted pair subscriber lines. The central office includes a telephone switch that provides telephone service to the subscribers and a concentrator that connects a plurality of upstream repeaters with a number of office modems that provide data service to the subscriber. A communication system uses CAP or DMT line signals with time division. The line signal transmits with different time framing. Every subscriber line can work in one of three operation modes Asymmetrical mode, Half-Asymmetrical mode, and Symmetrical mode. An office modem changes the operation mode of subscribers line and downstream/upstream bit rate depending on the type of an information source and the type of the subscriber home modem that is connected to the office modem in the current transmit cycle.

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