US 2008/0168518 A1Published application

Method of reducing upstream ingress noise in cable data system

AssigneeHitron Technologies Inc.

InventorsJin-Jen Hsue, Wei-Chih Lu

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Abstract

In a method of reducing upstream ingress noise in cable data system, downstream management messages containing information about user group data uploading time and channel frequency are broadcasted by a headend of the cable data system. The broadcasted downstream management messages are monitored, so as to determine an upstream channel connection time schedule for the user groups. Each user group is connected to an upstream channel of the headend only at a data uploading time scheduled for that user group. As a result, ingress noise existed in the user group will be uploaded to the headend only when the user group is connected to the headend. Therefore, accumulation of upstream ingress noise at the headend is effectively reduced, and the headend network can maintain good signal quality to ensure best network connection.

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Dependent claims

A method of reducing upstream ingress noise in cable data system, comprising the steps of:

(1) providing a plurality of upstream ingress noise blocking systems, each of which is mounted between a headend of the cable data system and one of a plurality of user groups;
(2) causing the upstream ingress noise blocking systems and the user groups to synchronously use an upstream channel of the headend;
(3) causing the upstream ingress noise blocking systems to simultaneously monitor downstream broadcast signals independently transmitted from the headend to each of the user groups, wherein each of the downstream broadcast signals includes information about data uploading time for a corresponding one of the user groups;
and an upstream channel connection time schedule being determined for the upstream ingress noise blocking systems and the user groups based on the data uploading time for each of the user groups;
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(4) causing the upstream ingress noise blocking systems to separately connect the corresponding user groups to the upstream channel according to the upstream channel connection time schedule, so that data from each of the user groups may be uploaded to the headend.

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