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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2003
Oleg Logvinov, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Dirk Walvis, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Lawrence F. Durfee, Washington, NJ (US);
Oleg Logvinov, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Dirk Walvis, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Lawrence F. Durfee, Washington, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
Power line communication ('PLC') signals are transmitted between a head-end PLC transceiver coupled to multiple remote PLC transceivers over a electric power and communications distribution network in accordance with a timing controlled PLC data frame which determines how much bandwidth is allocated to downstream transmission from the head-end to the remotes and to upstream transmissions from one or more of the remotes to the head-end. The configuration of the timing controlled data frame can be dynamically modified to achieve higher bandwidth for the downstream traffic and to satisfy changing bandwidth needs of each remote.