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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:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2023
Applicant:
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Inventors:
Mark Bridges, Brooks, GA (US);
Christopher J. Corcimiglia, Cumming, GA (US);
Jonathan Ray Dennis, Aurora, CO (US);
Randy Levensalor, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 69/323 (2022.01); H04L 41/0803 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 69/323 (2013.01); H04L 41/0803 (2013.01);
Abstract
A pluggable medium access controller (MAC) layer includes (1) a physical (PHY) layer interface configured to interface the pluggable MAC layer with a PHY layer and (2) a plurality of MAC modules. Each MAC module of the plurality of MAC modules is configured to implement respective functionality of the pluggable MAC layer. In some embodiments, the plurality of MAC modules are implemented in software, and the pluggable MAC layer is accordingly virtually configurable.