Inventor · Greenwood, IN, US

Daniel K. Chappell

37Patents
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23Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 19, 1994 → Jul 11, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6425132B1 Ingress testing of CATV system utilizing remote selection of CATV node Electricity 128 Expired
US6961370B2 Sweep method using digital signals Electricity 39 Expired
US5585842A CATV frequency sweep testing using RF transmitter to generate test signals Electricity 35 Expired
US6313874A Method and apparatus for direct detection of communication system leakage signals Electricity 31 Expired
US5867206A CATV frequency sweep testing using RF transmitter to generate test signals Electricity 21 Expired
US6041076A Digitally modulated CATV power measurement using undersampling Electricity 13 Expired
US8154303B2 Method for locating cable impairments Physics 12 Active
US9838679B2 Distance to fault measurements in cable TV networks Electricity 11 Active
US7944848B2 Upstream signal quality monitoring Electricity 9 Active
US8548760B2 Detecting nonlinearity in a cable plant and determining a cable length to a source of the nonlinearity Physics 8 Active
US6160991A CATV frequency sweep testing remote unit Electricity 7 Expired
US8558552B2 Home network characterization method and system Electricity 6 Active
US9634722B2 Cable network spectral measurement during upstream packet transmission Electricity 5 Active
US9357163B2 Characterizing ingress noise Electricity 3 Active
US9350986B2 Dual-port testing of a cable network Electricity 2 Active
US10694177B2 Distance to fault measurements in cable TV networks Electricity 2 Active
US7961719B2 End of line monitor using DOCSIS Electricity 2 Active
US8310940B2 Testing upstream cable channels Electricity 2 Active
US11239924B2 Per-channel modulation error ratio (MER) calibration and determination on a multi channel receiver Electricity 1 Active
US10728595B2 Upstream sweep test with sweep server signaling Electricity 1 Active
US8189651B2 Measuring Hum in a digital TV signal Electricity 1 Active
US8312496B2 Measuring the frequency response of a CATV network Electricity 0 Active
US12218710B2 Per-channel modulation error ratio (MER) calibration and determination on a multi channel receiver Electricity 0 Active
US11218189B1 Method and apparatus providing common path distortion (CPD) detection from a field instrument Electricity 0 Active
US12034619B2 Upstream signal leakage detection in high-split cable network Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.