Carl A Day

US Patent:

20080095082, Apr 24, 2008

Filed:

Dec 21, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/963418

Inventors:

Carl Day - Phoenix AZ, US
Jeff Battin - Duvall WA, US

Assignee:

HARRIS CORPORATION - Melbourne FL

International Classification:

H04J 3/02
H04B 7/26

US Classification:

370280000, 370310100

Abstract:

A method of operating in a point-to-multipoint communication system with a base station and a plurality of remote stations, wherein the communication system enables transmission of data in a multicast mode with different Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) levels, carries switched point-to-point traffic without compromising the switched nature of the traffic in a broadcast environment, contains circuits for evaluating the Remote Station Identifier (RSI) and switch field tag portions of received Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cells using a series of registers to match the RSI and the unique remote address, and embeds multicast address data capable of identifying intended remote stations at varying QAM levels.