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| 8141122 | RF terminate/permit system There is provided a terminate or permit device that includes an internal circuitry, which discriminates between noise and non-noise transmissions. In one embodiment, the internal circuitry comprises a switch and termination unit (“STU”) with a signal path that i... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132222 | Addressable tap units for cable television networks and related methods of remotely controlling bandwidth allocation in such networks Addressable tap units for a cable television network include a radio frequency input and a radio frequency output. These tap units may further include a radio frequency receiver that is configured to receive a radio frequency signal input at the radio frequency inpu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8006277 | Embedded power control in a high-speed cable A method for providing power to a boost device in a high-speed cable connected between a transmitting data source device and a receiving data sink device is described. The method comprises receiving differential data signals from the data source device in a differen... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001579 | Downstream output level and/or output level tilt compensation device between CATV distribution system and CATV user A downstream bandwidth output level and/or output level tilt compensation device that can be inserted into a signal transmission line of a CATV system on a premise of a user. The device includes a tuner that identifies low and high band signal channels, and a channe... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7908634 | High-speed cable with embedded power control A High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) cable carries high speed encoded data which are transmitted differentially over data channels, along with a clock. High-frequency loss and differential skew within a differential signal may be compensated by analog circu... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904932 | Wideband node in a CATV network A novel node device enables transmission of a wideband signal, in compliance with various acceptable transmission standards and protocols. The signal consists of the legacy spectrum of about 5-860 MHz as well as a new downstream spectrum of about 1000-2000 MHz and a... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7861277 | High-speed cable with embedded power control An HDMI cable carries high speed encoded data which are transmitted differentially over data channels, along with a clock. High-frequency loss and differential skew within a differential signal may be compensated by analog circuits embedded in the cable. These embed... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848951 | Method and apparatus for providing specifically targeted advertising and preventing various forms of advertising fraud in electronic books A method and apparatus for providing specifically targeted advertisements and preventing various forms of advertising fraud in electronic books. In one embodiment, the method includes; receiving or having access to the contents of books; receiving or having access t... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7748023 | Device, system and method for connecting a subscriber device to a wideband distribution network A method, device and/or system for connecting at least one subscriber device, e.g., a legacy subscriber device, to a wideband distribution network. The device may include, for example, an up-converter to up-convert a subscriber upstream signal within a subscriber up... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7743401 | Systems and methods of decoding and processing transactions for an addressable cable television tap Systems and methods for decoding and processing back-to-back transactions for an addressable cable television tap. The addressable tap includes an input port for receiving an input signal and output ports for providing outgoing signals to receiving equipment and a c... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739718 | System and method for automatically sensing the state of a video display device A system is described comprising: a local node to distribute multimedia content to a plurality of remote nodes; a power detection module to detect power usage of a multimedia device coupled to a first one of the remote nodes; a power analysis module to determine, ba... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7721317 | Coaxial communication active tap device and distribution system An apparatus, system, and method for affordably distributing cable communication signals at greatly reduced power consumption levels with high signal quality with an active tap having gain stage characterized by low power (less than 1 Watt), low noise figure (less t... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7690022 | Video distribution system for digital and analog subscribers A cable distribution system with distributed architecture that can accommodate both digital and analog subscribers. Each home has at least one Room Interface Unit (RIU), one for each television. There is a local service module associated with a group of RIUs (e.g., ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7451475 | Method for delivery of narrow-cast data over digital broadcast channels Broadband multimedia system comprising a communication bus, a broad band multimedia router, connected to the communication bus, to a data router and further between a plurality of media sources and a plurality of network transmitters, a session manager, connected to... | 11/11/2008 |
| 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 ‘K’. A parallel digital image signal is converted into a serial digital signal on the basis of the clock ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434249 | FTTH PON that O/E converts 1310 nm for output to transmitters for E/O as 1550 nm A fiber to the home (FTTH) system based on a passive optical network (PON) includes an optical line terminal (OLT) block, an optical network terminal (ONT) block, and an optical distribution network (ODN). The ONT block includes a video-optical line terminal (V-OLT)... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426558 | Method and system for controlling and auditing content/service systems An improved interactive network system is provided that allows the Network Operator to control the transfer of information to and from the network end users, the system preferably using triggers or markers embedded within the programming broadcast to users via the n... | 09/16/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7373414 | Multi-media system and method for simultaneously delivering multi-media data to multiple destinations A multimedia system and method that provides easy universal text searching for non-technical users, is disclosed. A configuration of the multimedia system and method of the present invention also facilitates content delivery through multiple, independent, simultaneo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370276 | Interface for collecting user preferences Various techniques are disclosed for accepting preference information from a user, where the preference information is specific to content elements within a media asset, and the preference information is collected while the user is viewing a display of the media ass... | 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 |
| 7360234 | System, method, and computer program product for selective filtering of objectionable content from a program A system, method, and computer program product is provided for the selective filtering of objectionable content from a program. The selective filtering of objectionable content from a program is accomplished by applying an encoding process and a decoding process to ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356019 | Method and apparatus for converting optical signals to radio channels The invention relates to a conversion of a pulse modulated signal to a radio frequency signal enabling use of applications and protocols designed for wireless optical links on radio frequency channels. The method comprises receiving the pulse modulated input signal,... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333475 | Switchboard for multiple data rate communication system A switchboard device and methods of operation of same are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention may provide a flexible means of interconnecting wideband and narrowband communications interfaces, where wideband communications interfaces may transfer low-band data a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330850 | Text mining system for web-based business intelligence applied to web site server logs A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text mining system has various components, in... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324167 | High-quality twisted-pair transmission line system for high-resolution video A system comprising a first filter having an input and an output adapted to compensate for the characteristics of a first length of twisted-pair wire is disclosed. A first bypass path has an input and an output for bypassing the first filter. A second filter has an ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315861 | Text mining system for web-based business intelligence A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text mining system has various components, in... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305357 | Method and system for providing and controlling delivery of content on-demand over a cable television network and a data network A system and method for delivering content on-demand by way of a cable network are disclosed. Provision of such content is controlled over a data network. Advantageously, a user interface at a conventional computing device may be used to order content and to control... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295518 | Broadband network for coaxial cable using multi-carrier modulation A broadband local area data network uses coaxial cable wiring for interconnection of terminal devices. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with bit loading is used to overcome channel impairments and provide a path for terminal devices to transmit to a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289167 | Television tuner including distribution connectors A metal frame body has first to fourth side plates and is divided, by a shield plate provided in the metal frame body, into a first compartment area near the first side plate and a second compartment area near the second side plate. A distributor is arranged in the ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289566 | Cable modem tuner An IF signal output from an IF amplifying circuit included in a tuner is converted to have a band width for transmission by an SAW filter and has unnecessary signals removed therefrom. Thereafter, the resulting signal has its gain made constant by an IFAGC circuit, ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7268836 | Television tuner device generating intermediate-frequency signal free from harmonic interference of reference signal A television tuner device includes a metal frame, including a shielding plate which separates the space defined by the metal frame into a first chamber at a first side plate and a second chamber at a second side plate opposite to the first side plate; a distribution... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265620 | Wide-band high-gain limiting amplifier with parallel resistor-transistor source loads An amplifier has a wide bandwidth and a high gain by using parallel loads. Each load has a load resistor and a load p-channel transistor in parallel. The drain voltages of differential n-channel transistors can be set by the load resistors, while switching current i... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7251820 | Method and system for automatically locating set-top terminals within a cable television system A cable television system automatically locates set-top terminals within the system with respect to the specific equipment through which the set-top terminal communicates with the system controller. This location of the terminal is used to configure the terminal to ... | 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 |
| 7210162 | DVB-ASI signal inverting adapter and system An inverting adapter is disclosed that inverts inverted DVB-ASI signals to produce an adapted DVB-ASI signal. This adapted DVB-ASI signal may be used by any DVB-ASI device. The inverting adapter can be contained in one small package and easily connected to any of th... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209497 | System and method for spectral node splitting in a hybrid fiber optic-coaxial cable network A system and method for spectral node splitting in cable TV network based on hybrid fiber-coax architecture is disclosed. Two-way optical signals carrying video and/or multimedia content are received at a signal distribution node. Portions of the received signals ar... | 04/24/2007 |
