Solutions for upstream channel bonding
US9237030B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 20, 2012 |
| Grant date | Jan 12, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 26, 2033 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L12/2898
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A cable modem that supports stateless requesting and/or limited contention-based requesting is provided herein. In an example, a physical layer (PHY) configured to communicate over a plurality of upstream channels is provided. A bandwidth requester is provided to request bandwidth using contention-based requesting over a first subset of the upstream channels for contention-based flows and request bandwidth using stateless requesting over a second subset of the upstream channels for stateless flows.
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