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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
May. 01, 2009
Todd Krein, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Spies, Moss Landing, CA (US);
Toby Farrand, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Steve Young, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael Sleator, Woodside, CA (US);
Todd Krein, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Spies, Moss Landing, CA (US);
Toby Farrand, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Steve Young, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael Sleator, Woodside, CA (US);
ARRIS Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system and method are described which allows multimedia signals received from one or more content providers (e.g., cable television providers, Internet content providers, . . . etc) to be received, processed and retransmitted by an originating node to one or more receiving nodes over a local cable network (e.g., the coaxial cable network within a user's home). One impediment to communication between nodes within the local cable network is the fact that most cable splitters are designed to attenuate signals between the split legs of the splitter. Accordingly, in one embodiment of the invention, a reflector device coupled upstream of the root splitter in a local cable network (or in place of the root splitter) is configured to reflect signals transmitted from the originating node back up into the network to the receiving nodes. Signal attenuation is minimized because the signals propagate from the splitter inputs to the splitter legs (rather than between the splitter legs).