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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2002
Applicant:
Phillip Kent Freyman, Elgin, IL (US);
Inventor:
Phillip Kent Freyman, Elgin, IL (US);
Assignee:
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is provided for introducing analog loss to an information-bearing signal being transmitted to or from end-user terminal equipment over a communication system such as a cable network The method begins by establishing a communication path to the terminal equipment over the communication system and then introducing a level of loss into the communication path to reduce echo. The level of loss that is introduced is based on the information content of the information-bearing signal.