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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2009
Applicant:
William T Hanks, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Inventor:
William T Hanks, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Assignee:
ARRIS Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/54 (2013.01); H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/22 (2006.01); H04N 21/21 (2011.01); H04N 21/23 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/647 (2011.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/2801 (2013.01); H04L 12/287 (2013.01); H04L 12/2861 (2013.01); H04L 12/5695 (2013.01); H04L 41/509 (2013.01); H04L 41/5009 (2013.01); H04N 7/10 (2013.01); H04N 7/22 (2013.01); H04N 21/21 (2013.01); H04N 21/23 (2013.01); H04N 21/6118 (2013.01); H04N 21/64723 (2013.01); H04N 21/64746 (2013.01); H04L 41/0213 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cable television plant may include fiber nodes, cable modems, a management information base (MIB), and a cable modem termination system (CMTS). The CMTS may include logic to apply information from the MIB to determine the suitability of resources assigned to the fiber nodes from particular MAC domains for providing data communications.