Patent ID: 7596798

Claim:
An apparatus for wireless upstream and downstream access to a cable television service comprising: a splitter; an embedded cable modem controller connected to said splitter; a downstream channel unit connected to said splitter and further connected to an automatic gain control (AGC); an upstream channel unit connected to said splitter and further connected to a programmable gain unit (PGU); and an antenna connected to an up converter transmitting unit and further connected to a down converter receiving unit, said up converter further connected to said AGC and said down converter further connected to said PGU; wherein said embedded cable modem controller is further to control at least one of the devices selected from the group consisting of said downstream channel unit, said upstream channel unit, said up converter transmitting unit, said down converter receiving unit, and said PGU, and wherein control of said up converter transmitting unit by said embedded cable modem controller is of at least mapping a frequency of a DOCSIS transmission into a wireless air frequency, wherein said wireless air frequency is a frequency mapped by adding said DOCSIS transmission frequency and the wireless air frequency.