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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2013
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
John T. Chapman, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Pawel Piotr Sowinski, Sudbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/50 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0816 (2013.01); H04L 47/2483 (2013.01); H04L 69/323 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example and includes segmenting a plurality of cable modems into a plurality of groups; identifying traffic being received or transmitted by each of the plurality of cable modems that is below a threshold; and determining whether to move each of the plurality of cable modems into a low-power mode based, at least in part, on the traffic being received or transmitted by each of the plurality of cable modems.