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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2018
Applicant:
The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars and the Other Members of Board, of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin, Dublin, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/927 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/0067 (2013.01); H04L 47/808 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0084 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0086 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention provides a method and system for Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment (DBA) Virtualization in a Passive Optical Network, comprising an Optical Line Termination (OLT) point and a plurality of Optical Network Units (ONU) and a plurality of Virtual Network Units (VNO), wherein each VNO is configured with a virtual Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment module to schedule a bandwidth assignment independently of the other VNOs and using a merging engine to implement a detailed bandwidth scheduling allocation over the Passive Optical Network.