Patent ID: 7058964
Filing Date: 2006-06-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital cable network architecture, comprising: a cable medium; a plurality of hosts that include a receiver; a policy file store that contains policy files having a service provider section, a consumer section, and a manufacturer section that can be updated by at least one of said service provider, a consumer and a receiver manufacturer, respectively; and a service provider that is associated with said policy file store, that provides digital cable services over said cable medium to said hosts and that downloads monitor applications (MAs) and policy files to said hosts over said cable medium, wherein said hosts execute said MAs, wherein said MAs use said manufacturer section of said policy file to alter fraudulent receiver identification calculations, and use at least one of said service provider section to alter service provisioning at levels below a channel level, and said consumer section to alter resource contention and alter service provisioning at levels below a channel.