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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
May. 10, 2019
Cox Communications, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Andrew Joseph Milley, Roswell, GA (US);
Bradley Wilton Napier Pfaff, Roswell, GA (US);
David Hicks, Atlanta, GA (US);
Timothy Andrew Cotter, Marietta, GA (US);
Randale Geray Keasler, Atlanta, GA (US);
Shahrzad Hariri, Dunwoody, GA (US);
Ajay Bahukhandi, Atlanta, GA (US);
Sung-eun Kim, San Diego, CA (US);
Gina L. Ignatowski, Atlanta, GA (US);
Cox Communications, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A network, such as a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network, may comprise a plurality of nodes. Each node may facilitate transmission of service signals between a service provider and a plurality of subscribers. If a node's utilization is determined to be above a predetermined threshold that is indicative of congestion on the node, a system associated with the service provider and/or a third party service may identify a subset of subscribers with excessive data usage. For example, the system may receive usage data for each subscriber serviced by the node, and compare the usage data to a total usage data among the subscribers serviced by the node and/or a standard to identify the subset. Once identified, the system may determine a cause of the excessive data usage for each subscriber within the subset, and determine an action to be performed based on the cause to alleviate the congestion on the node.