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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2004
Michael J. Macaluso, Highland Park, NJ (US);
BO Zhang, Somerville, NJ (US);
Oleg Logvinov, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Michael J. Macaluso, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Bo Zhang, Somerville, NJ (US);
Oleg Logvinov, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX (US);
Abstract
A power line communications PLC transmitter and receiver device includes a physical communications protocol layer that provides for dynamic selection of a communications signal transmission operating mode from a plurality of such modes, where each has a corresponding transmission data structure that is based on characteristics of the electric power distribution network to which the PLC device is to be coupled and also the communications protocol profile requirements for the network.