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公开(公告)号:US10601500B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-24
申请号:US16264116
申请日:2019-01-31
Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
Inventor: Peter Paul Smyth , Lin Cheng , Jim O'Connor , Eric Winkelman , Thomas H. Williams , Belal Hamzeh , Steve Arendt
IPC: H04B7/185 , H04W16/14 , H04W16/20 , H04B17/391 , H04B7/0413 , H04W52/24 , H04B7/06
Abstract: A communication system includes an earth station configured to receive a downlink transmission from a satellite and transmit an uplink transmission to the satellite. The communication system further includes a server in operable communication with the earth station, a beacon detector in operable communication with the server, an access point configured to operate within a proximity of the earth station, and a beacon transmitter disposed within close proximity to the access point. The beacon transmitter is configured to transmit a beacon signal to one or more of the server and the beacon detector. The beacon signal uniquely identifies the access point. The server is configured to implement a measurement-based protection scheme with respect to at least one of the downlink transmission and the uplink transmission.
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公开(公告)号:US10476631B2
公开(公告)日:2019-11-12
申请号:US15833832
申请日:2017-12-06
Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
Inventor: Thomas H. Williams , Gregory Charles White
Abstract: A receiver is configured to capture a plurality of linearly distorted OFDM symbols transmitted over a signal path. The receiver forms the captured OFDM symbols into an overlapped compound data block that includes payload data and at least one pseudo-extension, processes the overlapped compound block with circular convolution in the time domain using an inverse channel response, or frequency domain equalization, to produce an equalized compound block, and discards end portions of the equalized block to produce a narrow equalized block. The end portion corresponds with the pseudo-extension, and the narrow block corresponds with the payload data. The receiver cascades multiple narrow equalized blocks to form a de-ghosted signal stream of OFDM symbols. The OFDM symbols may be OFDM or OFDMA, and may or may not include a cyclic prefix, which will have a different length from the pseudo-extension.
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公开(公告)号:US10432388B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-01
申请号:US16175008
申请日:2018-10-30
Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
Inventor: Belal Hamzeh , Thomas H. Williams , Daniel Rice , Luis Alberto Campos
Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide for improved duplex communications in an RF cable network comprising a plurality of CMs. In one embodiment, a system includes a CMTS operable to transmit downstream communications to the CMs and to process upstream communications from the CMs. The system also includes a duplex RF communication path between the CMTS and the CMs. The CMTS is further operable to transmit a control signal that directs a first of the CMs to transmit, to direct the remaining CMs to receive the transmission from the first CM, to direct the CMs to report received power levels of the transmission from the first CM, and to calculate RF isolations of the remaining CMs with respect to the first CM based on the reported power levels.
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公开(公告)号:US20190238218A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-01
申请号:US16264253
申请日:2019-01-31
Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
Inventor: Peter Paul Smyth , Lin Cheng , Jim O'Connor , Eric Winkelman , Thomas H. Williams , Belal Hamzeh , Steve Arendt
IPC: H04B7/185 , H04W16/20 , H04W52/24 , H04B7/0413 , H04W16/14
CPC classification number: H04B7/18519 , H04B7/0413 , H04B7/0617 , H04B7/18517 , H04B17/3913 , H04W16/14 , H04W16/20 , H04W52/242
Abstract: A communication system includes an earth station configured to receive a downlink transmission from a satellite and transmit an uplink transmission to the satellite. The communication system further includes a server in operable communication with the earth station, a beacon detector in operable communication with the server, an access point configured to operate within a proximity of the earth station, and a beacon transmitter disposed within close proximity to the access point. The beacon transmitter is configured to transmit a beacon signal to one or more of the server and the beacon detector. The beacon signal uniquely identifies the access point. The server is configured to implement a measurement-based protection scheme with respect to at least one of the downlink transmission and the uplink transmission.
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公开(公告)号:US20190199429A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16264072
申请日:2019-01-31
Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
Inventor: Peter Paul Smyth , Lin Cheng , Jim O'Connor , Eric Winkelman , Thomas H. Williams , Belal Hamzeh , Steve Arendt
IPC: H04B7/185 , H04W16/20 , H04W16/14 , H04B17/391 , H04W52/24 , H04B7/0413
Abstract: A communication system includes an earth station configured to receive a downlink transmission from a satellite and transmit an uplink transmission to the satellite. The communication system further includes a server in operable communication with the earth station, a beacon detector in operable communication with the server, an access point configured to operate within a proximity of the earth station, and a beacon transmitter disposed within close proximity to the access point. The beacon transmitter is configured to transmit a beacon signal to one or more of the server and the beacon detector. The beacon signal uniquely identifies the access point. The server is configured to implement a measurement-based protection scheme with respect to at least one of the downlink transmission and the uplink transmission.
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公开(公告)号:US20190165854A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-30
申请号:US16264215
申请日:2019-01-31
Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
Inventor: Peter Paul Smyth , Lin Cheng , Jim O'Connor , Eric Winkelman , Thomas H. Williams , Belal Hamzeh , Steve Arendt
IPC: H04B7/185 , H04W52/24 , H04W16/14 , H04W16/20 , H04B7/0413 , H04B17/391
Abstract: A communication system includes an earth station configured to receive a downlink transmission from a satellite and transmit an uplink transmission to the satellite. The communication system further includes a server in operable communication with the earth station, a beacon detector in operable communication with the server, an access point configured to operate within a proximity of the earth station, and a beacon transmitter disposed within close proximity to the access point. The beacon transmitter is configured to transmit a beacon signal to one or more of the server and the beacon detector. The beacon signal uniquely identifies the access point. The server is configured to implement a measurement-based protection scheme with respect to at least one of the downlink transmission and the uplink transmission.
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公开(公告)号:US10148408B2
公开(公告)日:2018-12-04
申请号:US15700951
申请日:2017-09-11
Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC.
Inventor: Belal Hamzeh , Thomas H. Williams , Daniel Rice , Luis Alberto Campos
Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide for improved duplex communications in an RF cable network comprising a plurality of CMs. In one embodiment, a system includes a CMTS operable to transmit downstream communications to the CMs and to process upstream communications from the CMs. The system also includes a duplex RF communication path between the CMTS and the CMs. The CMTS is further operable to transmit a control signal that directs a first of the CMs to transmit, to direct the remaining CMs to receive the transmission from the first CM, to direct the CMs to report received power levels of the transmission from the first CM, and to calculate RF isolations of the remaining CMs with respect to the first CM based on the reported power levels.
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公开(公告)号:US10044405B2
公开(公告)日:2018-08-07
申请号:US15345326
申请日:2016-11-07
Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
Inventor: Thomas H. Williams , Gregory Charles White
Abstract: A method of reducing transmission power for an encoded data stream includes the steps of receiving an incoming data stream having equal probability for a plurality of incoming data bits, assigning a symbol scheme to the received data bits of the incoming data stream according to probabilities of occurrence of individual ones of the received data bits, and transmitting an outgoing data stream according to the assigned symbol scheme having a second average transmit power, different than the first average transmit power, for a plurality of outgoing symbols.
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公开(公告)号:US20180205490A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-19
申请号:US15833832
申请日:2017-12-06
Applicant: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Thomas H. Williams , Gregory Charles White
CPC classification number: H04L1/0036 , H04L25/03019 , H04L25/03114 , H04L25/03159 , H04L27/26 , H04L27/2605 , H04L27/2649 , H04L2025/03414 , H04L2025/03541 , H04W72/042
Abstract: A receiver is configured to capture a plurality of linearly distorted OFDM symbols transmitted over a signal path. The receiver forms the captured OFDM symbols into an overlapped compound data block that includes payload data and at least one pseudo-extension, processes the overlapped compound block with circular convolution in the time domain using an inverse channel response, or frequency domain equalization, to produce an equalized compound block, and discards end portions of the equalized block to produce a narrow equalized block. The end portion corresponds with the pseudo-extension, and the narrow block corresponds with the payload data. The receiver cascades multiple narrow equalized blocks to form a de-ghosted signal stream of OFDM symbols. The OFDM symbols may be OFDM or OFDMA, and may or may not include a cyclic prefix, which will have a different length from the pseudo-extension.
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公开(公告)号:US09871557B2
公开(公告)日:2018-01-16
申请号:US15276263
申请日:2016-09-26
Applicant: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
Inventor: Thomas H. Williams
CPC classification number: H04B3/46 , G01R29/0835 , G01R31/025 , G01R31/08 , G01R31/083 , G01S5/02 , G01S13/06 , H04B1/525 , H04B17/354
Abstract: Embodiments provided describe detections of RF leakage test signal emanating from cable plant. In one embodiment a single mobile receive antenna, connected to a complex demodulator mobile receiver, receives a stabilized test signal radiating from the cable plant. The test signal may be a known continuous wave (CW) carrier or other deterministic signal. The received test signal varies in phase as a function of a position of the mobile receive antenna relative to the location of a leakage antenna. The phase variance forms a Doppler shift as the test antenna moves relative to the leakage antenna. The receiver generates multiple in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) test signal samples over a SPA (synthetic phased array) distance as the test antenna's travels, and the samples are inserted into a Fourier transform. The result of the transform is instantaneous Doppler frequency shift, from which a bearing angle can be computed.
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