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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:
Aug. 13, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 19, 2022
Applicant:

Charter Communications Operating, Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);

Inventors:

Charles Cook, Castle Rock, CO (US);

Roger Stafford, Thornton, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/48 (2015.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/0896 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/48 (2013.01); H04L 12/2801 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0896 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, performed by a node, of provisioning a plurality of cable modems connected to the node, the method including: recording a respective transmit power level for each cable modem of the plurality of cable modems; determining a first set of the plurality of cable modems that can be allocated to a specified frequency band available for upstream communications according to an aggregation of the transmit power levels of the first set of the plurality of cable modems; and provisioning each cable modem of the first set to use at least a portion of the specified frequency.


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