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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2021
Applicant:
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Inventors:
Jason W. Rupe, Lafayette, CO (US);
Thomas Holtzman Williams, Longmont, CO (US);
Lin Cheng, Superior, CO (US);
Jingjie Zhu, Erie, CO (US);
Assignee:
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/0212 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for automatically identifying an impairment of a communication medium includes (1) obtaining a spectrum response of communication signals traveling through the communication medium, (2) converting the spectrum response from a frequency domain to a time domain, to generate an impulse response, and (3) identifying the impairment of the communication medium at least partially based on one or more characteristics of the impulse response.