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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
May. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kung-Shiuh Huang, Irvine, CA (US);
Steven Peter Monti, Raleigh, NC (US);
Antonio Ruiz, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375260 ; 375219 ; 375220 ; 348398 ;
Abstract
This invention provides a method and apparatus for providing easily adaptable and select transmission and reception rates between a number of clients and a server. With this invention a broadband signal is transmitted/received from the server to the clients, who individually may need to receive/transmit only a small portion of the composite signal. More specifically, this invention uses discrete multiple tone coding to provide the easily adaptable and selected transmission rates to the clients.