Lawrence W. Yonge

Authorizing customer premise equipment into a network

Network encryption key rotation

Media access control protocol with priority and contention-free intervals

Establishing shared information in a network

Encrypting data in a communication network

Managing spectra of modulated signals in a communication network

Flexible scheduling of resources in a noisy environment

Time synchronization in a network

Communicating in a network that includes a medium having varying transmission characteristics

Bandwidth management in a powerline network

Synchronizing channel sharing with neighboring networks

Communicating schedule and network information in a powerline network

Coexistence of access provider and in-home networks

Generating signals for transmission of information

Generating signals for transmission of information

Reserving time periods for communication on power line networks

Channel adaptation synchronized to periodically varying channel

Temporary priority promotion for network communications in which access to a shared medium depends on a priority level

Using error checking bits to communicated an address or other bits

Medium access control layer that encapsulates data from a plurality of received data units into a plurality of independently transmittable blocks