Patent ID: 8341679
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H04H,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An intelligent device for transmitting information on a modulated RF signal, comprising: an input configured to receive a digital stream containing digital information, the digital information containing at least one destination address to which the digital information is to be sent; an RF channel detector configured to detect which dynamically allocated RF channels are currently being used in a wideband signal distribution system, and to generate RF channel in use information identifying which of the dynamically allocated RF channels are currently being used in the wideband signal distribution system; a traffic sensor configured to measure an information throughput of the digital information received by the input, and to generate traffic information identifying the information throughput of the received digital information; a modulator unit configured to modulate the digital information into at least two separate dynamically allocated RF channels when the traffic information indicates that the information throughput of the digital information exceeds an information capacity of a single RF channel, and to output a modulated RF signal containing the at least two separate dynamically allocated RF channels to the wideband signal distribution system such that the digital information contained in the received digital stream is distributed across the at least two dynamically allocated RF channels output to the wideband signal distribution system; and a processor configured to