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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2008
Robert Goguen, Acton, MA (US);
DE Fu LI, Wayland, MA (US);
Pawel Sowinski, Northborough, MA (US);
Nicos Achilleoudis, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert Goguen, Acton, MA (US);
De Fu Li, Wayland, MA (US);
Pawel Sowinski, Northborough, MA (US);
Nicos Achilleoudis, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) generates a bandwidth grant message corresponding to a time segment. The CMTS identifies a portion of the time segment to be assigned according to received bandwidth request messages originating from downstream cable modems. The CMTS determines whether a remaining portion of the time segment can accommodate more than N broadcast contention slots, and if so, selects at least one of the cable modems for receiving an upstream bandwidth boost.