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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2014
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H04N 21/6379 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01); H04N 21/2383 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/6379 (2013.01); H04N 21/2383 (2013.01); H04N 21/4363 (2013.01); H04N 21/4382 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); H04B 2203/545 (2013.01); H04B 2203/5458 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes receiving, at a communications gateway associated with a customer premises, multimedia content from a communications network. The method includes superimposing, via the communications gateway, a heartbeat signal on an alternating current electrical power signal associated with an electrical wiring system of the customer premises. The method includes encoding the multimedia content based on the heartbeat signal to produce encoded multimedia content at the communications gateway. The method also includes wirelessly transmitting the encoded multimedia content from the communications gateway to a device.