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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2009
Applicants:
Todd P. Bowen, Austin, TX (US);
William H. Berger, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Todd P. Bowen, Austin, TX (US);
William H. Berger, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Time Warner Cable, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for determining a fault in a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable network segment. A two-way client uses a two-way query interface to acquire information indicative of the two-way operational status of subscriber CPE units associated with a subscriber number from a two-way validation server. Using the operational status of the subscriber CPE units, a fault may be associated with either the CPE units or with network facilities other than the two or more CPE units.