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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:
Oct. 21, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas J. Cloonan, Lisle, IL (US);
Daniel W. Hickey, Oswego, IL (US);
Assignee:
Arris International, Inc., Duluth, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 ; H04J 3/14 ; H04L 1/266 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 ; H04J 3/14 ; H04L 1/266 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing connection admission control (CAC) on a cable data system helps provide viable quality of service (QoS) capability on a cable data system. Cable data service is granted or denied to cable data service to said requesting subscriber based in part upon the determination of whether the available bandwidth is greater than, less than or equal to the bandwidth to be allocated to the requesting subscriber.