Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Very high speed cable modem for increasing bandwidth
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Application No.: US11200313Application Date: 2005-08-09
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Publication No.: US09699102B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Thomas J. Cloonan , Tim Doiron , Max Robbins , Carol Ansley , Mark Bugajski , Russ Enderby , Bruce McClelland
- Applicant: Thomas J. Cloonan , Tim Doiron , Max Robbins , Carol Ansley , Mark Bugajski , Russ Enderby , Bruce McClelland
- Applicant Address: US GA Suwanee
- Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
- Current Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Suwanee
- Agent Thomas A. Ward
- Main IPC: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28 ; H04L12/801 ; H04L12/851 ; H04L12/861 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
A system for increasing bandwidth to a communication device, comprising:a packet scheduler; and a transmitter; the system configured to operate the packet scheduler to schedule packets of a service flow onto multiple media access control (MAC) channels forming a MAC channel group before operating the transmitter to send the scheduled packets from an origination device toward a destination device, the packet scheduler waiting a maximum group cross channel skew time for an out-of sequence packet, the maximum group cross channel skew time a maximum of multiple pair cross channel skew times, one pair cross channel skew time associated with each pair grouping of MAC channels configured to be formed from the MAC channel group; and the system configured with a setting to allow only a single channel of the multiple channels of the MAC channel group to carry DOCSIS messages, and to override the setting to share at least some of the channels of the MAC channel group among multiple cable modems while the MAC channel group forms a bonded channel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060039380A1 Very high speed cable modem for increasing bandwidth Public/Granted day:2006-02-23
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