| 20100296423 | Multi-Medium Signal Transmission System and Method - A system and method are provided for transmitting and receiving a data stream through multiple paths in different mediums. A data stream can be demuxed into separate sub-streams and the separate sub-streams can be communicated to a device through different mediums, where the separate sub-streams can be muxed into a single substream at the receiving device. For example, one sub-stream can be conveyed wirelessly through an antenna, or through several antennas via MIMO transmission, and one sub-stream can be conveyed through a wire medium, such as a telephone line or a power line. Various pre-processing techniques, such as STBC encoding, FEC encoding, and MIMO matrix encoding as well as different methods of demuxing can be implemented to improve reliability and throughput of the system. | 11-25-2010 |
