CA2106834A1 - Initializing Terminals in a Signal Distribution System - Google Patents

Initializing Terminals in a Signal Distribution System

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CA2106834A1
CA2106834A1 CA2106834A CA2106834A CA2106834A1 CA 2106834 A1 CA2106834 A1 CA 2106834A1 CA 2106834 A CA2106834 A CA 2106834A CA 2106834 A CA2106834 A CA 2106834A CA 2106834 A1 CA2106834 A1 CA 2106834A1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/81—Monomedia components thereof
    • H04N21/8166—Monomedia components thereof involving executable data, e.g. software
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/235—Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/435—Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
    • H04N7/17309—Transmission or handling of upstream communications
    • H04N7/17327—Transmission or handling of upstream communications with deferred transmission or handling of upstream communications
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
    • H04N7/17345—Control of the passage of the selected programme
    • H04N7/17363—Control of the passage of the selected programme at or near the user terminal

Abstract

The invention relates to signal distribution systems, such as interactive cable television systems, wherein a central server communicates with remote terminals wherein the server assigns a specific address to each newly-connected terminal for control messages and polls. In the case of an interactive cable television system, such terminal is the set-top box or converter connected between the cable system and the television receiver. Periodically, the server broadcasts a control message containing a tentative address, and polls the tentative address. Upon receiving such a message, a newly-connected converter stores the tentative address and responds to the poll with an uplink message. After receiving the uplink message, the server inserts the tentative address in its polling list in accordance with the transmission delay measured from sending the poll to receiving the uplink message and selects a new tentative address to use in subsequent broadcast control messages. Uplink messages are echoed by the server and verified by the converter.
If the converter cannot verify an echoed uplink message, which can occur if morethan one newly-connected converter responds to the same broadcast control message, the converter repeats its initialization procedure to acquire a new address.
After the initialization is complete, system software can be downloaded from theserver to the converter and the converter placed in service.
CA002106834A 1992-10-23 1993-09-23 Initializing terminals in a signal distribution system Expired - Fee Related CA2106834C (en)

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