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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 1985
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul Baran, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Maarten R Pranger, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
Packet Technologies, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358 86 ; 370 94 ; 455-5 ;
Abstract
A two-way (interactive) cable television system is disclosed which has distributed processing and which employs a cable-distribution subsystem that includes corrective regenerators each of which ignores noise (invalid signals) and, when overloaded, ignores (rejects) certain valid signals so as to favor older information (commands).