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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:
Jan. 02, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1997
John A. Perreault, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Dennis J. Picker, Lincoln, MA (US);
Sunil K. Menon, Mansfield, MA (US);
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
The apparatus (,) and method for spectrum management in a multipoint communication system controls upstream channel usage for secondary stations (,) transmitting information to a primary station (,) and downstream channel usage for secondary stations (,) receiving information from a primary station (,). The preferred apparatus (,) embodiment includes a processor arrangement (,) having a master controller (,) and a plurality of processors (,), with the processor arrangement connected to a channel interface (,). The apparatus (,) and method controls channel load balancing, channel congestion, and channel assignment in a multipoint communication system, and controls upstream channels independently from downstream channels. Factors and parameters utilized in such channel control and allocation include error parameters, channel noise parameters, transmit and receive loading factors, and congestion parameters.