Patent ID: 9571908
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04Q

Claim:
1. A bidirectional repeater for repeating an electrical signal traversing a conductive line coupled between a gateway node and a sensor, the bidirectional repeater comprising: a first input-output port coupled to the gateway node; a second input-output port coupled to the sensor; a first transceiver configured to receive a synchronization signal of a plurality of synchronization signals from the first input-output port and to transmit a resynchronized data signal to the first input-output port; a second transceiver configured to transmit the synchronization signal to the second input-output port and to receive a data signal from the second input-output port; and a repeater circuit coupled to the first and second transceivers and configured to pass through the synchronization signal without re-clocking the synchronization signal, and to resynchronize the data signal to generate the resynchronized data signal, wherein an entirety of the resynchronized data signal occupies a time period between consecutive ones of the plurality of synchronization signals.