Patent ID: 8151306
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: G08B,G08C,H04B,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: one or more transmission mediums for carrying at least upstream and downstream digital data traffic; a headend circuit coupled to all said transmission mediums and containing or coupled to one or more server computers and/or other circuits to provide at least digital data services to a plurality of customers; one or more local area networks and/or dedicated LAN segments or data paths at each customer premises; one or more peripheral devices at each customer premises coupled to said one or more local area networks and/or dedicated LAN segments or dedicated data paths, said one or more peripheral devices including a non-television component; a plurality of gateway means at customer premises locations and coupled to all said transmission mediums and coupled to said one or more local area networks, for receiving, demodulating and detecting digital data transmitted to one or more of said peripherals from said headend circuit and to packetize and route said data to the appropriate peripheral device via said one or more local area networks or one or more ports directly connected by dedicated lines or LAN segments to one or more peripherals, and for managing traffic and bandwidth and rate shaping if necessary to match the data rate of data to be transmitted over a data path to the available bandwidth on that data path; and a remote control means at one or more customer premises and, at each premises, coupled by wireless digital data communication circuitry to said gateway or to said gateway through a peripheral device, for issuing commands to said headend circuit through said gateway and one or more transmission mediums to provide data to said one or more peripherals through said one or more transmission mediums and said gateway.