ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,307, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).
"Systems and methods for profile management" was invented by Karthik Sundaresan (Boulder, Colo.) and Gregory Charles White (Louisville, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A profile optimizing method is provided for a downstream channel transmission of active subcarriers to user devices. The method includes steps of receiving channel measurement data from each user device for each subcarrier, calculating a maximum bit-loading value for each user device per subcarrier, grouping the user devices into a plurality of clusters based on a proximi...