Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

A addressable CATV end-user payment collection management system, which includes a cable TV broadcasting system, the cable TV broadcasting system having a plurality of demodulators, which demodulate signals from different channels, a video signal main cable for signal output, a mixer, which mixes the signals received from the demodulators into an end-user receivable video signal, and then sends the mixed video signal to the end users through the video signal main cable, a payment collection computer data bank for storing and processing data of the end-users, and producing a control signal to a cable modem subject to the payment data of the end-users, a cable modem connected between the cable TV broadcasting system and the payment collection computer data bank for sending the control signal from the payment collection computer data bank to the mixer of the cable TV broadcasting system for mixing with the video signal for synchronous output; and a plurality of signal distributors respectively connected to the video signal main cable for distributing the video signal to the end-users, the signal distributors each having a programmable central processing unit for receiving the control signal from the payment collection computer data bank through the cable modem for closing/opening the line at each individual end-user.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim