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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2006
Deepak Kataria, Edison, NJ (US);
Seong-hwan Kim, Allentown, PA (US);
Sundar Vedantham, Orwigsburg, PA (US);
Deepak Kataria, Edison, NJ (US);
Seong-Hwan Kim, Allentown, PA (US);
Sundar Vedantham, Orwigsburg, PA (US);
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for use with an integrated circuit device of a processing device of a network node of a digital networking system, configured to monitor one or more control messages received at the processing device from each of a plurality of CPE devices, and limiting the one or more control messages to one or more specified rates for a specified duration. The integrated circuit device is further configured to provide one or more data channels to the plurality of CPE devices from the processing device in response to the one or more control messages processed at the processing device.