US 20140325576A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2014/0325576A1 Rivera (43) Pub. Date: Oct. 30, 2014 (54) ADVANCED WIRELESS IPTV SET TOP BOX (52) U.S. Cl. CPC ................................... H04N 2 1/438 (2013.01) (71) Applicant: Manolo Fabio Rivera, Maspeth, NY USPC .......................................................... 725/110 (US) (57) ABSTRACT (72) Inventor: Malo Fabio Rivera, Maspeth, NY An advanced wireless IPSTB is provided with multiple built in antennas capable of capturing plural downstream transmis (21) Appl. No.: 14/330.309 sions simultaneously on dedicated receivers using different modem technologies without the use of wires to the home. (22) Filed: Jul. 14, 2014 The proposed solution facilitates the advanced wireless IP STB being able to receive multiply sourced data traffic, Related U.S. Application Data including, for example, IPTV, digital TV, web TV, radio web, - - - internet chat: written, voice and video, GPS tracking locator (62) Division of application No. 13/374,721, filed on Jan. signals, media player web support, web based SN 10, 2012, now Pat. No. 8,819,757. You Tube and the like video streaming, TV surveillance, (60) Provisional application No. 61/431,476, filed on Jan. Video intercom Surveillance, and much more. The advanced 11, 2011. wireless IPSTB is configured to be able to establish a broad band (internet) session through previously assigned or nego Publication Classification tiated channel assignments between one or more modems and plural remote wireless infrastructures widely deployed in a (51) Int. 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ItW COE 14 35-> tRNFRMMA scaR d -34 POWER FROMMAN BOARD Patent Application Publication Oct. 30, 2014 Sheet 6 of 6 US 2014/0325576 A1 FIG6 BOARD PHONE Voip Code 43-- INTERNETIN FROMMAIN BOARD POWER FROMMAN BOARD US 2014/0325576 A1 Oct. 30, 2014 ADVANCED WIRELESS IPTV SET TOP BOX revision provides up to 40 Mbit/s with the IEEE 802.16m update expected to offer up to 1 Gbit/s fixed speeds. The name CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED “WiMAX” was created by the WiMAX Forum, which was APPLICATIONS formed in June 2001 to promote conformity and interoper 0001. This application is a divisional application of appli ability of the standard. cation Ser. No. 13/374,721 filed Jan. 10, 2012, now pending, 0010. The forum describes WiMAX as “a standards-based which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broad No. 61/431,476 filed Jan. 11, 2011. These prior applications band access as an alternative to cable and DSL. The “last are hereby expressly incorporated by reference herein in their mile' or “last kilometer' is the final leg of delivering connec entirety. tivity from a communications provider to a customer. The phrase is therefore often used by the telecommunications and FIELD OF THE INVENTION cable television industries. The actual distance of this leg may be considerably more than a mile, especially in rural areas. It 0002 The present disclosure relates to advanced IPTV set is typically seen as an expensive challenge because "fanning top boxes. out' wires and cables is a considerable physical undertaking. Because the last mile of a network to the user is also the first BACKGROUND mile from the user to the world, the term “first mile” is 0003 Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV, refers to tele Sometimes used. vision that is distributed over an IP network—the same kind 0011 To solve the problem of providing enhanced ser of network used to Surf the internet and exchange emails. In vices over the last mile, Some firms have been mixing net reality, much more than television can be sent over a network. works for decades. One example is fixed wireless access, Using IPTV technology, it is easy to distribute terrestrial and where a wireless network is used instead of wires to connect satellite television and radio, videos/DVDs, digital videos a stationary terminal to the wireline network. on-demand (VoIDs), digital signage, information boards, and 0012 Various solutions are being developed which are web content to a facility or home. All of this multimedia seen as an alternative to the “last mile' of standard incumbent content can be viewed on standard and high definition TVs as local exchange carriers: these include WiMAX and BPL well as personal computers. (Broadband over Power Line) applications. 0004. There are different forms of IPTV. “Internet IPTV 0013 The 802.16-2004 version of WiMAX, also known as is delivered over the internet to and from anywhere in the 802.16d, refers to the working party that developed this stan world. An example of this would be home videos on YouTube. dard. It is sometimes referred to as "Fixed WiMAX, because com or TV programs on Zattoo. As this type of IPTV travels it has no support for mobility. By contrast, 802.16e-2005, over the public internet, there is no effort to optimize band often abbreviated to 802.16e, is an amendment to 802.16 width or content delivery. Videos are easily displayed in a web 2004. It introduced support for mobility, among other things browser but usually at low quality and with delays in trans and is therefore also known as “Mobile WiMAX. mission. 0014 Mobile WiMAX is the WiMAX incarnation that has 0005 Telco IPTV is delivered by a phone/internet/cable the most commercial interest to date and is being actively provider, also referred to as a telecommunications provider or deployed in many countries. Mobile WiMAX is also the basis Telco. Often the television programs one watches at home of future revisions of WiMAX. For purposes of this disclo have traveled across an IP network in the same fashion as sure, WiMAX is used to refer to both standards interchange internet traffic—and now some phone services such as ably. SKYPE VoIP is delivered. Telco has the ability to imple (0015 The bandwidth and range of WiMAX make it suit ment quality of service mechanisms that ensure reliable deliv able for providing fixed and portable mobile broadband con ery of live and on-demand content. With on-demand TV nectivity across cities and countries through a variety of shows, TV content is stored on a server somewhere on the devices. It can be used to reliably and cost-effectively provide provider's network. a wireless alternative to cable and DSL for “last mile” broad 0006 Broadcast IPTV is when television broadcasters band access. Broadband (internet) access, of course, facili transmit their programming onto the internet for public con tates providing data, telecommunications (VoIP) and IPTV Sumption via personal computers. Many channels are broad services (triple play), gaming services and the like services cast for free, while others charge a fee for subscribing to their traditionally available to end users via a cable, DSL, or even service. Unfortunately, broadcasters have no control over satellite receiver. bandwidth or quality of service. 0016. As more and more companies are deploying 0007. With all forms of IPTV, television and video can WiMAX to provide mobile broadband or at-home broadband easily be supplied to various consumer premises equipment, connectivity across whole cities or countries, this has resulted including set top boxes so long as coupled to an existing IP in competition in markets which typically only had access to network infrastructure. broadband through an existing incumbent DSL (or similar) 0008. A major benefit of IPTV is that new building con operator. struction can forego the need of setting up a coaxial network. 0017 Additionally, given the relatively low cost to deploy Audio and video can instead be received via a phone line. a WiMAX network (in comparison to GSM, DSL or Fiber Even phone lines are now becoming obsolete with VoIP Optic), it is now possible to provide broadband in places becoming the dominant form of Voice communication where it might have been previously economically unviable. medium, and wireless access commonplace. 0018 With the proliferation of wireless broadband access 0009 WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Micro and the availability of digital television, advanced STBs wave Access) is a telecommunications protocol that provides which typically were able to provide IPTV functionality via a fixed and fully mobile internet access. The current WiMAX wired link in the home (via PSTN, cable or satellite) can US 2014/0325576 A1 Oct. 30, 2014 instead use an external WiMAX receiver as a “last mile' more websites on the internet. Each link can be a simple alternative for establishing the needed broadband connection broadcast link, a unicast link, or a multicast link, depending to the STB or PC in the home.