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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2018
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

David Barr, San Jose, CA (US);

Bernard Arambepola, Enfield, GB;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04B 3/02 (2006.01); H04B 3/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/14 (2013.01); H04B 3/02 (2013.01); H04B 3/32 (2013.01); H04L 12/2801 (2013.01); H04L 12/2898 (2013.01); H04L 29/06183 (2013.01);
Abstract

A head-end equipment associated with a communication system configured to interface with an interference group (IG) composed of two or more modems is disclosed. The head-end equipment comprises a memory configured to store a plurality of instructions; and one or more processors configured to retrieve the plurality of instructions from the memory. In some embodiments, the one or more processors, upon execution of the plurality of instructions from the memory, is configured to generate an advanced warning signal to be provided to one or more modems associated with the IG. In some embodiments, the advanced warning signal comprises an information that a select modem, different from the one or more modems, in the IG will be initiating an upstream communication in a select frequency band, as well as information on a start time and a duration of the upstream communication.


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