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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:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2007
Michelle A. Waggener, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Michael U. Bencheck, Richardson, TX (US);
Scott Ray Kotrla, Wylie, TX (US);
Matthew William Turlington, Richardson, TX (US);
Christopher Nicholas Delregno, Rowlett, TX (US);
Richard C. Schell, Allen, TX (US);
Michelle A. Waggener, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Michael U. Bencheck, Richardson, TX (US);
Scott Ray Kotrla, Wylie, TX (US);
Matthew William Turlington, Richardson, TX (US);
Christopher Nicholas DelRegno, Rowlett, TX (US);
Richard C. Schell, Allen, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Apparatuses, methods and computer-readable storage mediums are provided for calculating estimated addressing and bandwidth requirements of a customer domain, such as to facilitate designing the respective domain. A method includes selecting customer premises equipment (CPE) of a domain including a plurality of CPEs, where each CPE includes one or more devices, and one of the one or more devices include an interface with which the domain communicates with the respective CPE. The method also includes determining if the interface of the selected CPE comprises a router, and calculating an addressing requirement of the selected CPE, where the addressing requirement includes a number of device addresses for the selected CPE. The method may additionally or alternatively include analyzing traffic patterns of the selected CPE with respect to one or more other CPEs, and based on the analysis, calculating a bandwidth requirement of the selected CPE.