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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2021
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Eric Winkelman, Boulder, CO (US);
Mario Di Dio, Longmont, CO (US);
Richard D. Terpstra, Superior, CO (US);
Zackary Foreman, Westminster, CO (US);
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
A method for estimating a bandwidth characteristic of a communication link between a transmitter node and receiver node includes (1) receiving, from the receiver node, a plurality of synchronization data packets sent by the transmitter node via the communication link, (2) estimating an offset time representing a time required for each synchronization data packet to traverse the communication link, (3) receiving, from the receiver node, a plurality of test data packets sent by the transmitter node via the communication link, and (4) estimating the bandwidth characteristic of the communication link at least partially based on the offset time and characteristics of one or more of the plurality of synchronization data packets and one or more of the plurality of test data packets.