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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156535 | Data rate compression device for cable television return path using bandpass puncturing An apparatus for and a method of transmitting analog return signals in a digital return path of a cable television system (CATV) is disclosed. In one embodiment, at a node of the CATV system, an analog CATV return signal is converted to a stream of digital samples a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7996450 | Network-based file access system A network-based file access system obtains an identifier for a resource stored on a remote storage system to an application. The application can use the identifier to pull the contents of a file associated with the identifier or to push contents of a file to a folde... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7971225 | Bandpass component decimation and transmission of data in cable television digital return path A device for and a method of decreasing the data rate of a digital return path link in a Cable Television Hybrid Fiber-Coax system (CATV system) is disclosed. At the node of the CATV system, the bandwidth of the a digital data stream representative of an analog retu... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7900234 | Broadcasting receiver and communication method using the broadcasting receiver A method of performing communication between an Internet protocol (IP) address allocation server and an apparatus including a cable card and a host device is disclosed. In the communication method, the host acquires identification information of the cable card and t... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7716712 | Narrowband interference and identification and digital processing for cable television return path performance enhancement An adaptive data stream filter removes narrowband interference from the CATV return path prior to these paths being combined in the network. A method for removing narrowband interference from the CATV return path detects potential narrowband interference in real-tim... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7698726 | Band limited port aggregation in a digital return path CATV system A method and system for multi-port aggregation in a digital return path CATV system digitizes each of a plurality of return path signals, splits each of the plurality of return path signals into a low band and an upper band (41), combines each of the pluralit... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7440702 | Method for transmitting digital image signal, digital image transmitting device, digital image sending device and digital image receiver A multiplexer of a transmission section generates a clock signal by multiplying a reference clock signal of a digital image signal by a predetermined number âKâ. A parallel digital image signal is converted into a serial digital signal on the basis of the clock ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437750 | Data transceiving system and method therefor An object is to perform retrial processing according to the allowable volume on communication lines made available at response information receiving equipment. A broadcast unit 140, when broadcasting video and audio, includes retrial information in that broad... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421728 | Interactive television receiver unit browser that waits to send requests In interactive television, a broadcaster may broadcast triggers to a great many receiver units prompting the receiver units to attempt to send requests to a single destination on the Internet at roughly the same time. Such a large number of simultaneous requests can... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412169 | FTTH system for convergence of broadcasting and communication through switched broadcasting A fiber to the home FTTH network for convergence of broadcasting and communication is disclosed. The network includes: an OLT for receiving and converting a first predetermined number of broadcast signals and an Ethernet signal into a plurality of converted optical ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7370114 | Software downloading using a television broadcast channel A software distribution architecture having a television broadcast system as its infrastructure. Software from a software repository (1600) is mixed into a television broadcast system and transmitted into one or more selected channels at prescribed dates and ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359447 | Asynchronous digital signal combiner and method of combining asynchronous digital signals in cable television return path A device for and method of combining asynchronous digital return signals from multiple nodes of a CATV return path is disclosed. The signals are digitally filtered, re-sampled at a common output rate and digitally combined (e.g., summed) without being converted to a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7340171 | FTTH system for broadcast/communication convergence using IEEE 1394 A broadcast/communication convergence system, and an FTTH (Fiber To The Home) system that can accommodate broadcast signals of various channels and variable band signals by converging broadcast and communication signals and transmitting the converged broadcast and c... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336788 | Electronic book secure communication with home subsystem The invention, an electronic book selection and delivery system, is a new way to distribute books and other textual information to bookstores, libraries and consumers. The primary components of the system are a subsystem for placing text in a video signal format and... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7305460 | Initialization file downloading apparatus and method of cable modem An initialization file download method of a cable modem includes the steps of: registering configuration file name information in a DHCP server; receiving the configuration file name information registered in the DHCP server; comparing the received first configurati... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7299988 | Information processing system, hand held cellular phone, and information processing method An information processing system comprises an information providing medium that stores information in an electromagnetic or optical manner, the information providing medium being attached to an entity in order to provide information associated with the entity; a han... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7284260 | Method and apparatus for bit vector array A bit vector array apparatus provides a high speed method for processing network transmission controls. Complex data structures for controlling network access are represented in the simplest possible form as single bit vector elements. The bit vector elements are co... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277104 | Video signal skew Devices for reducing and determining the skew between colour video signals transmitted over at least two different video cables are described. A KVM extender including such devices is also described. The skew reduction device includes a plurality of video signal tra... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275116 | Mobile terminal synchronizing components of a document separately A method of operating a mobile terminal comprising a local memory and a screen is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving a first component of a document over a first communication channel, receiving a second component of the document over a second co... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272847 | System for return bandwidth minimization using selective sampling In a cable television system a system for supporting SCU return in FTTB-MDU and FTTC/FTTcab configurations. Fiber, baseband transceiver and networking capabilities are shared with data and voice portions of the system for enabling communication from the SCUs to the ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257328 | System and method for transmitting data on return path of a cable television system An optical signal return path system includes a transmitter having a sample clock generator for generating a sample clock and an RF signal receiver for receiving and converting an analog RF data signal into a first data stream of digitized RF data samples at a rate ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254828 | Multiple input data receiver for cable television systems A multiple input data receiver for bi-directional cable television (CATV) systems simultaneously monitors and selectively receives a return path signal on a plurality of return paths. When an appropriate data or signal transmission is detected on a return path, the ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251682 | Web browser system A broadcast data receiver (BDR) is provided with a web browser system. A service provided by the web browser system si selectable by a user of the BDR and, when selected, is controllable by the user via a remote control handset, thereby allowing an Internet web site... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7222358 | Cable television return link system with high data-rate side-band communication channels A Cable Television (CATV) digital return link system that provides dedicated, high-speed, full-duplex and point-to-point connections between users and the head end system is disclosed. The CATV digital return link system includes return path transmitters, intermedia... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7202978 | Facsimile telecommunications system and method A system and method for facilitating facsimile transmissions has one or more store and forward facilities. The store and forward facilities include a computer for controlling operations and mass data storage equipment. Subscriber mailboxes are provided as part of th... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200855 | Method and apparatus of multiplexing a plurality of channels in a multimedia system A method and apparatus for multiplexing a plurality of channels within a multimedia system includes processing that begins by receiving a plurality of channels from a multimedia source. The processing then continues by receiving a plurality of channel selection comm... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194757 | Method and apparatus for push and pull distribution of multimedia The present specification discloses a multimedia distribution system and method. The system and method has a producer workstation, a delivery server, a high-bandwidth one-way satellite transmission system, a terrestrial two-way communication system (including use of... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190903 | Fiber and wire communication system This invention provides a new architecture for a communication system between head-ends and end-users which expands bandwidth and reliability of the communication system. A mux-node receives communication signals from a head-end and forwards the received communicati... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7171678 | Systems and methods for establishing and administering sessions in digital cable systems Systems and methods facilitate the provisioning of a new service in a cable system without requiring that server hardware and/or software be changed to implement the service, or that an equivalent session manager be created in a set-top box. Session requests are gen... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162731 | Radio frequency characterization of cable plant and corresponding calibration of communication equipment communicating via the cable plant A switch router and one or more gateways incorporating a diagnostic and calibration system that performs RF characterization of an underlying cable plant. The switch router is connected at a point of insertion or point of distribution and each gateway is located dow... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7146634 | Digital signal receiver and digital signal display method A digital signal receiver includes a distributed information storage unit having a data storage device for storing broadcast information. A menu frame for the information items stored in the data storage device is reformed as table-of-contents information having the... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7124428 | Information providing system, information terminal device, information server device and information providing method An information providing system allows to intentionally modify the arrangement of clips to be reproduced from that of the first transmission. The program clips and the CM clips obtained by receiving those broadcast are stored in recorded result storage section 11... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117383 | Phase difference delay control system for accommodating fluctuation in phase difference in distance measuring system A phase difference delay control system is provided that enables distance measurement between a reference position and a terminal at the time of recovery after a line has been disconnected as a result of fluctuation of phase difference of clock crossover units. In a... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110534 | Terminal blocks and methods for making and breaking connections in a telecommunication conductor In embodiments of the present invention, telecommunications terminal blocks are provided for making and breaking connections between a first telecommunications conductor, a second telecommunications conductor and a service wire. The terminal block includes a housing... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106385 | Apparatus and method for reducing the visual effects of artifacts present in a line scanned video display On a line scanned video display, the frequency of an artifact producing signal within the video passband is selected to be an odd harmonic of one half the horizontal line scan frequency so that adjacent scan lines of the artifact are 180 degrees out of phase with ea... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103907 | RF return optical transmission A method of transmitting TV signals and bidirectional telephone communication signals on a single optical fiber, existing telephone twisted pair infrastructure, and existing coaxial cable infrastructure. In addition to allowing the downstream transmission of televis... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7100192 | Method of and an apparatus for controlling a web server, a web server control program, and a storage medium on which the web server control program is stored A WEB server includes a control unit for HTTP server, a table of addresses of VOD servers, and a table of identifiers of video data. The control unit accesses these tables, in response to a request from a user of a terminal device for a display of video data, to ret... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7089577 | Process for supplying video-on-demand and other requested programs and services from a headend A system for providing video-on-demand service, broadband internet access and other broadband services over T-carrier systems including a pull multiplexer cherrypicker at the head end is disclosed. The pull multiplexer receives upstream requests and cull out MPEG or... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7076201 | Low cost VSAT MMIC transceiver with automatic power control A very small aperture terminal (VSAT) transceiver of a VSAT terminal has a ceramic substrate board with transmitter, receiver and local oscillator circuits, including microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) chips positioned on the ceramic substrate board. A m... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068329 | Method and system for providing a video signal In accordance with the specific embodiment of the present invention, a tuner alternates between receiving a first video signal and a second video signal, such that every other frame of a specific signal is received. This is accomplished by writing to an IF1 a... | 06/27/2006 |
