US Patent 7529846 Video receiver architecture for digital subscriber line networks

A customer-side receiver unit and method include a network interface module for receiving multiplexed information in the form of one or more of voice, audio, visual and data from a head-end network. A transport layer termination entity terminates layers of protocol associated with the information. A transport converter is coupled to the transport layer termination entity to convert streaming data in the information to a format usable by a local network. A dedicated stream port is coupled to the transport converter to output the streaming data content to the local network.