Patent ID: 7599300
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A cable modem (CM) analysis server for a hybrid-fiber-coax (HFC) cable network comprising: a simple network management protocol (SNMP) query library, wherein the query library comprises instructions for acquiring and reporting CM state data elements responsive to an SNMP query and indicative of a state of a CM from the CM; a subscriber query library, wherein the subscriber query library comprises instructions for acquiring and reporting subscriber information from a billing datastore in response to a subscriber query, wherein the subscriber information comprises a subscriber account number; a central control system (CCS) query library, wherein the CCS library comprises instructions for determining and reporting in response to a CSS query whether a CM MAC address is known to the network; a query checker processor, wherein the query checker processor comprises instructions that configure the query checker processor to perform operations comprising: the results analyzer, wherein the results analyzer comprises instructions that configure the results analyzer to perform the operations comprising: the display server, wherein the display server comprises instructions that configure the display server to perform operations comprising: