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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Cedric Fung Lam, Milpitas, CA (US);
Tony Ong, San Jose, CA (US);
Ke Dong, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven Fong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yut Loy Chan, San Jose, CA (US);
Yifan Gao, Fremont, CA (US);
Milo Steven Medin, Redwood City, CA (US);
Dov Shimon Zimring, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A local area network system that includes a residential gateway in wired communication with a remote service provider and multiple set top boxes in wired communication with the residential gateway. Each set top box includes a network extender having a wired connection to a residential gateway of a local area network, a media player in communication with the network extender, and at least one wireless transceiver in communication with the network extender. The media player includes a computing processor executing instructions to format a signal received from the network extender for use by a media device. Each set top box is configured as an access point for a local area network of the residential gateway.