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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2022
Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);
Zoran Maricevic, West Hartford, CT (US);
Ayham Al-Banna, Irving, TX (US);
Francis J. O′Keeffe, Cork, IE;
Thomas Cloonan, Lisle, IL (US);
John M. Ulm, Moultonborough, NH (US);
Zhijian Sun, Avon, CT (US);
Marcel Franz Christian Schemmann, Maria Hoop, NL;
ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Horsham, PA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for implementing soft duplex operation of a communications network that transmits downstream signals from a service provider to a subscriber and upstream signals from the subscriber to the service provider. The apparatus may include a pair of opposed triplexers defining a first signal path through a first amplifier and a second signal path through a second amplifier. The apparatus may also include at least one switch that selectively alternates a mid0band signal between an upstream signal and a downstream signal.