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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2012
Richard Woundy, North Reading, MA (US);
Jason Livingood, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Chris Bastian, Glenmoore, PA (US);
Thomas E. Klieber, Malvern, PA (US);
James Cary Mills, Ii, Tampa, FL (US);
Matthew J. Scully, Media, PA (US);
Peter J. Sevcik, Charlottesville, VA (US);
John Reed Bartlett, Acton, MA (US);
Richard Woundy, North Reading, MA (US);
Jason Livingood, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Chris Bastian, Glenmoore, PA (US);
Thomas E. Klieber, Malvern, PA (US);
James Cary Mills, II, Tampa, FL (US);
Matthew J. Scully, Media, PA (US);
Peter J. Sevcik, Charlottesville, VA (US);
John Reed Bartlett, Acton, MA (US);
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
A shared channel used to communicate between a cable modem termination system and multiple cable modems is managed to prevent and/or reduce the impact of congestion. If the average channel utilization is above a near-congestion threshold, a cable modem in an extended high consumption state is assigned a reduced data transmission priority for managed traffic. Priority for that cable modem is restored to a default preferred level when the channel usage by that cable modem drops below a predetermined level or when the average aggregate channel utilization by all cable modems drops below the near-congestion threshold.