Patent ID: 7050419

Claim:
A digital data receiver, comprising: first means for suppressing frequencies in an input spectrum other than the frequency components of a desired carrier and digitizing at least said desired carrier; second means for recovering data encoded in one or more burst type transmitted at different times on the same frequency subchannel, said bursts being any of a plurality of different burst types, and for recovering data encoded in two TDMA bursts transmitted at the same first symbol rate on two adjacent frequency channels during a first interval as well as the data from multiple services encoded in an SCDMA burst transmitted during a second interval that does not overlap said first interval and having a symbol rate which is twice as high as the symbol rate of said TDMA bursts and transmitted on a frequency channel having a center frequency approximately at the boundary frequency between said two adjacent frequency channels on which said TDMA bursts were transmitted, said burst types characterized by at least the following characteristics: DOCSIS 1.0 or 1.1 time division multiplexed; advanced PHY time division multiplexed or synchronous code division multiplexed, and any one of a plurality of different symbol rates and modulation types; and having programmable interleaving depth and block size, and being or not being Trellis code modulated; and means for controlling said first and second means to operate correctly to receive the particular type of burst or bursts being received on one or more selectable frequency channels.