Dynamic intelligent bidirectional optical access communication system with object/intelligent appliance-to-object/intelligent appliance interaction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9723388-B2
Application number	US-201614999984-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 25, 2016
Priority date	Dec 6, 2006
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

Present invention can enable significant bandwidth to a connected home, which comprises an intelligent subscriber optical subsystem, configured for receiving wavelength/bandwidth on-Demand. The intelligent subscriber optical subsystem also connects with one or more objects; and one or more intelligent appliances, wherein the one object at least comprises a radio module and a sensor/bio-sensor module, wherein the one intelligent appliance at least comprises a processor module and a radio module.

First claim

I claim:

1. An optical system comprising:
(a) a node, which is optically coupled with a remote node by at least one single-mode optical fiber;
(b) the node comprises:
(i) an optical subsystem wherein the optical subsystem is selected from the group consisting of: a wavelength division multiplexer, a wavelength division demultiplexer and a cyclic arrayed waveguide grating router,
(ii) a first optical transmitter of more than one gigabit per second of optical signals, wherein the optical signals are selected from one or more wavelengths of a first set of wavelengths, wherein the first transmitter comprises: a laser,
(iii) a first optical receiver of at least one gigabit per second of optical signals, wherein the optical signals are selected from one or more wavelengths of a second set of wavelengths, which are offsets in wavelengths with respect to the first set of wavelengths, wherein the first optical receiver comprises: a photodiode or an avalanche photodiode; and

(c) the remote node, which is optically coupled with a subscriber optical subsystem, wherein the subscriber optical subsystem comprises:
(i) a second optical receiver of more than one gigabit per second of optical signals, wherein the optical signals are selected from one or more wavelengths of the first set of wavelengths wherein the second optical receiver comprises: a photodiode or an avalanche photodiode,
(ii) an optical micro-subsystem,
wherein the optical micro-subsystem comprises: a laser or an optical amplifier or an optical intensity attenuator,
wherein the optical micro-subsystem transmits at least one gigabit per second of optical signals,
wherein the optical signals are selected from one or more wavelengths of the second set of wavelengths, which are offsets in wavelengths with respect to the first set of wavelengths,
wherein the optical micro-subsystem modulates the optical signals in phase and intensity,
wherein the optical signals are selected from one or more wavelengths of the second set of wavelengths, which are offsets in wavelengths with respect to the first set of wavelengths.

2. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: a local node.

3. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: a time division multiplexing transmission protocol or a broadcasting transmission protocol.

4. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: a time division multiplexing reception protocol or a broadcasting reception protocol.

5. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: an electronic circuit selected from the group consisting of: a pilot-tone modulation electronic circuit, a burst-mode electronic circuit, a forward-error correction electronic circuit and an electronic dispersion compensation electronic circuit.

6. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: an optical component selected from the group consisting of: a wavelength tunable laser, a modulator, a demodulator, a phase-to-intensity converter, an optical amplifier, an optical power combiner, an optical power decombiner, an arrayed waveguide grating router, a cyclic arrayed waveguide grating router, an optical switch, a space switch, an optical circulator, an optical filter, an optical intensity attenuator and a dispersion-compensated single-mode optical fiber.

7. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: the subscriber optical subsystem, which comprises: an optical circulator or an optical filter.

8. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: the subscriber optical subsystem, which comprises: an Internet address, an internet firewall, a spyware and an algorithm, wherein the algorithm is selected from the group consisting of: a user specified safety control algorithm, an in-situ subscriber diagnostics algorithm, a remote subscriber diagnostics algorithm and a subscriber authentication algorithm.

9. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: the subscriber optical subsystem, which comprises: a connection module selected from the group consisting of: a radio module, an electromagnetic induction module and a sensor module, wherein the radio module comprises: au ultra-wideband module or a millimeter wave radio module.

10. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: the subscriber optical subsystem, which comprises: a software defined radio module or a position module, wherein the position module comprises: a module selected from the group consisting of: a Bluetooth module, a WiFi module, a GPS module and an electronic compass module.

11. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: the subscriber optical subsystem, which comprises: an electronic module selected from the group consisting of: a voice processing module, a video compression module, a content over-IP module, a video conference over-IP module, a 3-D video conference over-IP module, a voice-to-text conversion module and a text-to-voice conversion module.

12. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: the subscriber optical subsystem, which comprises: an algorithm selected from the group consisting of: a voice processing algorithm, a video compression algorithm, a content over-IP algorithm, a video conference over-IP algorithm, a 3-D video conference over-IP algorithm, a voice-to-text conversion algorithm and a text-to-voice conversion algorithm.

13. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: the subscriber optical subsystem, which comprises: an electronic module selected from the group consisting of: a set top box, an Internet connected set top box, a personal server, an internet connected personal server, a time-shift module, an internet connected time-shift module, a place-shift module and an Internet connected place-shift module.

14. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: the subscriber optical subsystem, which comprises: an intelligence rendering algorithm or a software agent algorithm.

15. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: the subscriber optical subsystem, wherein the subscriber optical system is sensor-aware or context-aware.

16. The optical system according to claim 1 , further comprises: the subscriber optical subsystem, which electrically or wirelessly couples with an object or an internet appliance, wherein the object comprises: a radio module and a module selected from the group consisting of: a sensor module and a bio-sensor module, wherein the Internet appliance comprises: a processor module and a radio module.

17. An optical system comprising:
(a) a node, which is optically coupled with a remote node by at least one single-mode optical fiber;
(b) the node comprises:
(i) an optical subsystem wherein the optical subsystem is selected from the group consisting of: a wavelength division multiplexer, a wavelength division demultiplexer and a cyclic arrayed waveguide grating router,
(ii) a first optical transmitter of more than one gigabit per second of optical signals, wherein the optical signals are selected from one or more wavelengths of a first set of wavelengths, wherein the first transmitter comprises: a laser,
(iii) a first optical receiver of at least one gigabit per second of optical signals, wherein the optical signals are selected from one or more wavelengths of a second set of wavelengths, which are offsets in wavelengths with respect to the first set of wavelengths, wherein the first optical receiver, comprises: a photodiode or an avalanche photodiode; and

(c) the remote node, which is optically coupled with a subscr

Assignees

• Mazed Mohammad A

Inventors

• Mazed Mohammad A

Classifications

• H04Q11/0067 Primary

  Provisions for optical access or distribution networks, e.g. Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GE-PON), ATM-based Passive Optical Network (A-PON), PON-Ring · CPC title

• H04Q11/0005

  Switch and router aspects · CPC title

• H01S5/06258

  with DFB-structure · CPC title

• H04B10/272

  Star-type networks {or tree-type networks} · CPC title

• H04B10/5161

  Combination of different modulation schemes · CPC title