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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:
Aug. 13, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1994
Caitlin B Bestler, Chicago, IL (US);
Khosro M Rabii, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Other;
Abstract
A cable television upstream data transmission system provides a plurality of uniquely assignable time slots for use by subscriber terminals in upstream data transmission. The unique assignment of time slots provides guaranteed access for each subscriber terminal during its time slot. The width and number of time slots are controlled by a pair of programmable values which may be downloaded from the cable system headend to accommodate dynamic changes of the cable system. A transmission modulator used within the subscriber terminal produces an upstream transmission carrier having a frequency locked to a common network reference signal such as the system symbol clock. The frequency of the carrier signal produced by the transmission modulator is programmably controlled by a plurality of program values which are selected to provide frequency and phase lock of the modulator's carrier to the symbol clock network reference signal.