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Terrestrial digital multimedia/television broadcasting system

US7406104B2 · kind B2 · utility

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37Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateAug 23, 2001
Grant dateJul 29, 2008
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 9, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/6181
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system for transmitting information as frames in digital format between users on a network using a single frequency and TDMA and/or CDMA communications. Broadcasting, multicasting and unicasting are provided, and communications may be part of a downlink and/or an uplink signaling scheme that allows user-user and user-central station communication. A synchronization segment or pre-amble for a frame may include identification of the source and/or the intended recipient. Walsh, Haar, Rademacher coding of selected frame components, among others, can be incorporated. Reed Solomon encoding, signal interleaving and intra-leaving, trellis encoding and turbo encoding are used for error detection and correction. The system provides two-way communication with the Internet and/or with a cellular network and/or for smaller networks of users.

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