Patent ID: 8910227

Claim:
A method operable to tune customer premise devices from a first upstream transmission profile to a second upstream transmission profile based on transmit power levels, comprising: identifying a transmission power level associated with an existing customer premise device transmitting information to a network edge device; measuring a receive power level associated with the existing customer premise device, the receive power being measured at the network edge device; determining whether the transmission power level associated with the existing customer premise device exceeds a threshold of the receive power level associated with the existing customer premise device; scanning transmission characteristics of at least one other upstream transmission profile; selecting from the at least one other scanned upstream transmission profiles a second upstream transmission profile that can accommodate upstream transmissions from the existing customer premise device without adversely affecting upstream transmissions from customer premise devices that are not operating in excess of the threshold of their respective transmission and receive power levels; instructing the existing customer premise device transmitting upstream at a power level exceeding a threshold of the receive power level to begin transmitting upstream on the second upstream transmission profile; and modifying characteristics of the first upstream transmission profile.