Patent ID: 7853978

Claim:
An apparatus for wirelessly receiving a terrestrial television broadcast signal carrying a data component together with a video component, processing the signal, and providing the processed signal to a display device at a dwelling, the apparatus comprising: an antenna subsystem configured to be placed in or about the dwelling, and configured to: receive the terrestrial television broadcast signal carrying the data component together with the video component from a transmitter station configured to wirelessly transmit the terrestrial television broadcast signal carrying the data component together with the video component to multiple antenna subsystems placed in or about one or more dwellings, perform a set of preprocesses on the terrestrial television broadcast signal carrying the data component together with the video component, and transmit the preprocessed signal to a receiver subsystem, over a remote communication link, via a remote modem that encodes and modulates the preprocessed signal wherein the antenna subsystem is located remote from the transmitter station and remote from the receiver subsystem; and a receiver subsystem configured to be collocated with the display device, and configured to: receive the encoded and modulated preprocessed signal from the antenna subsystem, and demodulate the received encoded and modulated preprocessed signal using a remote demodulator, wherein the remote demodulator is configured to recover the signal wherein the receiver subsystem is located remote from the transmitter station and remote from the antenna subsystem, wherein the antenna subsystem and the receiver subsystem can be configured to use a return channel to provide command and control data from the receiver subsystem to the antenna subsystem, and wherein the antenna subsystem and the receiver subsystem together includes a plurality of components in accordance with a selected partition, wherein the plurality of components includes a tuner module configured to tune to a broadcast channel of the terrestrial television broadcast signal wirelessly transmitted from the transmitter station and carrying the data component together with the video component, an RF/IF/ADC (radio-frequency/intermediate-frequency/analog-to-digital converter) configured to digitize a signal, a downconvert module coupled to the RF/IF/ADC and configured to mix the digitized signal from the RF/IF/ADC to near baseband, a decimating filter coupled to the downconvert module and configured to reduce a sampling rate of the digitized signal, a recovery module coupled to the decimating filter and configured to translate the digitized signal to baseband and to provide a control signal to a controller, and a linear filter coupled to the recovery module and configured to isolate the video and data components of the digitized signal.