Advanced Wireless IPTV Set Top Box
An advanced wireless IP STB is provided with multiple built-in antennas capable of capturing plural downstream transmissions simultaneously on dedicated receivers using different modem technologies without the use of wires to the home. The proposed solution facilitates the advanced wireless IP STB being able to receive multiply sourced data traffic, including, for example, IPTV, digital TV, web TV, radio web, internet chat: written, voice and video, GPS tracking locator signals, media player web support, web based video gaming, You Tube and the like video streaming, TV surveillance, video intercom surveillance, and much more. The advanced wireless IP STB is configured to be able to establish a broadband (internet) session through previously assigned or negotiated channel assignments between one or more modems and plural remote wireless infrastructures widely deployed in a municipality, such as WIMAX, LTE, WCDMA, CDMA 1×, TDSCMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, 5G or the like.
1 . A wireless set top box (STB) comprising:
a plurality of radio network receivers for processing at least an IPTV signal over a first broadband link to a first radio network and a second broadband link to a second radio network, where the first and second broadband links are between the wireless STB and a wide area network;
multiple antennas for processing the information delivered to the STB in order to identify a strongest signal received for capturing plural downstream transmissions on dedicated receivers using a plurality of modem technologies without the use of wires to the home;
wherein the plural downstream transmissions are emitted from at least one base station;
a processor to establish, based on at least one of predefined metrics and priority schemes, data traffic links to at least two of the plurality of modem technologies simultaneously; and
a transmitter for transmitting a wireless signal to at least one other device.