Cryptography – Cryptanalysis
Patent
1988-12-05
1991-05-07
Wallace, Linda J.
Cryptography
Cryptanalysis
380 20, 455 1, H04N 7167
Patent
active
050143093
ABSTRACT:
An off-premises cable television interdiction apparatus provides a microprocessor controller for controlling and switching one or more variable frequency voltage controlled oscillators. The variable frequency oscillators selectively jam only unauthorized premium programming transmitted on particular channels of a broadband signal in the clear from a headend to a subscriber. The microprocessor controller controls the variable frequency oscillators to hop between jamming frequencies and jam particular channels under control from the headend. A frequency calibration routine is executed periodically upon power-up to determine gain parameters for the oscillators. A heterodyned variable frequency oscillator may be provided for the interdiction system which moves the frequency of the variable frequency oscillator out of the television band and mixes the variable frequency oscillator output with a fixed local oscillator output to provide a jamming signal that falls in the television band. Gain control using a heterodyned oscillator may instead be provided for use in the interdiction system which uses one channel of the broadband signal as the jamming signal. Automatic gain control may also instead be provided for controlling the attenuation of a variable attenuator in accordance with a gain function determined by interpolation and previously stored in memory by a calibration routine executed periodically or upon power-up. The calibration routine may run concurrently with a frequency calibration routine for controlling the frequency of the jamming signal.
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