A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AFFECTING THE BEHAVIOR OF A NETWORK DEVICE IN A CABLE NETWORK

• Main Authors: WEBB, WILLIAM, DANFORTH, ANDREW, DILLON, MICHAEL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 02.03.2006
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A subscriber access control system (SACS) [Fig 1, 100] configures a network device connected to cable network to affect the behavior of that device. The SACS comprises a rules engine [Fig 1, 125] and a datastore [Fig 1, 130] that stores the current state of subscribers known to the SACS and historic...