Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1996-06-05
2000-09-12
Peng, John K.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
455 31, 455 32, 455 51, 455 61, 348 7, 348 12, 348 13, 379 9001, H04N 710, H04N 714
Patent
active
061184721
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for seamless connectivity between a narrow-band network like the Internet and an interactive TV wide-band network and methods of operating the same support on the fly translation and routing of data between the Internet and the interactive TV wide-band network. The apparatus for interfacing between a wide-band network and a narrow-band network comprises a decoder, having a decoder input, a first decoder port, and a second decoder port, which receives wide-band data from the wide-band network via the second decoder port and decodes the wide-band data to provide decoded data in response to decoder requests from the decoder input. A gateway, coupled to the decoder, the narrow-band network, and the wide-band network having a first gateway port to receive the decoder requests from the first decoder port, a second gateway port to interface with the narrow-band network, and a third gateway port to interface with the wide-band network, retrieves requested data from the narrow-band network in response to the decoder requests and transfers the requested data to the wide-band network for transfer to the decoder.
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Dureau Vincent Louis
Girons Regis St.
Lo Linus H.
OpenTV, Inc.
Peng John K.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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