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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2022
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Luis Alberto Campos, Superior, CO (US);
Christopher J. Corcimiglia, Cumming, GA (US);
Thomas Holtzman Williams, Longmont, CO (US);
Lin Cheng, Superior, CO (US);
Sayandev Mukherjee, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Belal Hamzeh, Westminster, CO (US);
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
A method for automatic discovery of a communication network including a hub, a plurality of termination devices, and a plurality of network elements. The method includes (a) associating respective geographic information with each termination device, (b) determining a respective distance of each termination device from the hub, (c) grouping, at least partially based on diagnostic information from the communication network, two or more of the plurality of termination devices sharing a common characteristic, (d) determining a topology of the communication network, and (e) determining a respective characteristic of at least one network element of the plurality of network elements.