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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2011
Niki Pantelias, Duluth, GA (US);
Scott Hollums, Duluth, GA (US);
Niki Pantelias, Duluth, GA (US);
Scott Hollums, Duluth, GA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A cable modem termination system (CMTS) is disclosed that allocates one or more minislots of a super-frame arrangement to cable modems for upstream transmission. The super-frame arrangement includes multiple minislots that correspond to multiple communication channels of one or more super-frames. The CMTS receives requests for upstream bandwidth from the cable modems. The CMTS continuously allocates the minislots of the super-frame to provide upstream bandwidth grants to accommodate these requests. The CMTS communicates the upstream bandwidth grants as a single upstream bandwidth allocation map (MAP) to the cable modems.