公开(公告)号：US20180367852A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-20

申请号：US15626100

申请日：2017-06-17

Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Alon Shlomo Bernstein ,  Hang Jin

IPC: H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/442

Abstract: An embodiment of a method includes determining a channel signature for each of a plurality of cable devices associated with a selected household; determining whether at least one of the channel signatures is substantially different than the remaining ones of the channel signatures; and if at least one of the channel signatures is substantially different than the remaining ones of the channel signatures, flagging the selected household for potential theft of services review. Additional embodiments may include determining a radio frequency (“RF”) signal power level for each of the cable devices; calculating a sum of the determined RF signal power levels; determining whether the calculated sum is equal to an RF power signal level measured at a tap of the selected household; and if the calculated sum is not equal to the measured RF power signal level, flagging the selected household for potential theft of services review.

公开(公告)号：US20180025399A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-25

申请号：US15214003

申请日：2016-07-19

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Plamen Nedeltchev ,  David Delano Ward ,  Alon Shlomo Bernstein ,  Mohit Agrawal

IPC: G06Q30/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06Q30/0603 ,  G06F9/5061 ,  G06F16/9535 ,  G06F16/9558 ,  G06F16/958 ,  G06Q30/0625 ,  G06Q50/01 ,  H04L67/16

Abstract: A crowd-sourced cloud environment allows for, and benefits from, modes of interaction between among the service providers (including the “resource providers” and the “cloud provider”) and consumers (also referred to herein as “tenants”) that are not practiced in a DC-centric cloud environment—specifically, the use of Internet-based social networking technology and Internet-based online marketplace technology to facilitate resource pooling and interaction between crowd-sourced cloud resource providers, the cloud provider, and crowd-sourced cloud consumers.