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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2013
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Jose Abad Molina, Rincón de la Victoria, ES;
Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz, Edinburgh, GB;
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A Powerline Communications (PLC) device includes processing circuitry, memory coupled to the processing circuitry, and a PLC interface coupled to the processing circuitry. The PLC device transmits a plurality of PLC queries, two of the plurality of PLC queries complying with differing PLC communication standards, receives a plurality of responses from a plurality of other PLC devices, responses received from two PLC devices complying with differing PLC communication standards, directs the two PLC devices to transmit communications according to respective differing PLC communication standards in an attempt to avoid PLC communication conflicts. The differing PLC communication standards may include a HomePlug communication standard and an ITU home networking (G.hn) communication standard. The PLC device may convert communications between the differing PLC communication standards.