US 9,210,362 C1 (12,885th)
Wideband tuner architecture
Madhukar Reddy, Carlsbad, CA (US); Curtis Ling, Carlsbad, CA (US); and Tim Gallagher, Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed by MaxLinear, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US)
Assigned to ENTROPIC COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, New York, NY (US)
Reexamination Request No. 90/019,255, Sep. 20, 2023.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 9,210,362, issued Dec. 8, 2015, Appl. No. 14/614,543, Feb. 5, 2015.
Application 90/019,255 is a continuation of application No. 13/962,871, filed on Aug. 8, 2013, granted, now 9,100,622.
Application 13/962,871 is a continuation of application No. 12/762,900, filed on Apr. 19, 2010, granted, now 8,526,898.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/170,526, filed on Apr. 17, 2009.
Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate issued on Apr. 1, 2025.
Int. Cl. H04B 1/16 (2006.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/455 (2006.01); H04N 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 21/426 (2011.01); H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H04N 21/454 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/4263 (2013.01) [H04B 1/0014 (2013.01); H04N 5/455 (2013.01); H04N 5/50 (2013.01); H04N 21/4382 (2013.01); H04N 21/4383 (2013.01); H04N 21/454 (2013.01); H04N 21/6143 (2013.01); H04N 21/6193 (2013.01)]
OG exemplary drawing
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 1-20 is confirmed.
1. A wideband receiver system comprising:
a mixer module configured to downconvert a plurality of frequencies that comprises a plurality of desired television channels and a plurality of undesired television channels;
a wideband analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module configured to digitize said plurality of frequencies comprising said plurality of desired television channels and said plurality of undesired television channels;
digital circuitry configured to:
select said plurality of desired television channels from said digitized plurality of frequencies; and
output said selected plurality of television channels to a demodulator as a digital datastream.