Patent ID: 9525462
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: H04B

Claim Text:
1. A system for use in power line communication (PLC), the system comprising: a plurality of PLC endpoints being situated at respective facilities and configured to monitor power being consumed at the respective facilities over power lines which are power-coupled to the PLC endpoints; and at least one data processing apparatus situated remote from the respective facilities and configured and arranged to share information, in the form of different data blocks respectively representing different aspects of the information, with the plurality of PLC endpoints via the power lines which are power-coupled to the PLC endpoints; the plurality of PLC endpoints and the at least one data processing apparatus being configured and arranged to: share the information therebetween by transmitting, over the power lines, one of the different data blocks over a plurality of different communication channels; over the power lines, receive a first signal representing a transmitted one of the different data blocks over a first one of the plurality of different communication channels and receive a second signal also representing the transmitted one of the different data blocks over a second one of the plurality of different communication channels; and discern information carried by said one of the different data blocks, as a function of a signal versus noise measure associated with the first signal and the second signal by: