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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2017
Entropic Communications Llc, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Bradley Thomas Hyslop, La Jolla, CA (US);
Abul Qasem Shamsuddin Safdar, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert L. Hare, San Diego, CA (US);
Zong Wu, San Diego, CA (US);
Inderjit Singh, Ocean Beach, CA (US);
Shlomo Ovadia, San Diego, CA (US);
Entropic Communications LLC, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
A communication system and method including the steps of receiving a first request to initiate a guaranteed quality of service flow in a network, broadcasting a second request from a Network Coordinator to a plurality of nodes connected to the network and receiving a first response to the second request from at least one ingress node. The method further includes receiving a second response to the second request from at least one egress node indicating whether the at least one egress node has available resources to receive the guaranteed quality of service flow and allocating resources for the guaranteed quality of service flow if the at least one ingress node has available resources to transmit, and the at least one egress node has available resources to receive, the guaranteed quality of service flow.