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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 23, 2015
Applicant:

Maxlinear, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);

Inventors:

Timothy Gallagher, Encinitas, CA (US);

Patrick Tierney, Solana Beach, CA (US);

Jun Huang, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Maxlinear, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 17/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04N 17/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A receiver is configured to be coupled to a television and data service provider headend via a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network. The receiver comprises front-end circuitry operable to receive a signal that carries a plurality of television and/or data channels, and digitize the received signal to generate a digitized signal. The receiver comprises channelizer circuitry operable to select a first portion of the digitized signal, and select a second portion of the digitized signal. The receiver comprises processing circuitry operable to process the selected second portion of the digitized signal to recover information carried in the plurality of channels. The receiver comprises monitoring circuitry operable to analyze the selected first portion of the digitized signal to measure a characteristic of the received signal; and control the transmission of network management messages back to the headend based on the measured characteristic of the received signal.


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