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US 10,708,640 B2Granted
Channel bonding with multiple network types
AssigneeAvago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
InventorsXuemin Chen, Rajesh Shankarrao Mamidwar, Victor Hou
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Abstract
Different data communication architectures deliver a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, to consumers. The architectures employ channel bonding to deliver more bandwidth than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, different network types may be channel bonded to function as a single logical channel.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- an input interface communicatively coupled to a wide area network;
- output interfaces to individual communication channels of a local area network, wherein the individual communication channels comprise different network types;
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- processor in communication with the input interface and the output interfaces, the processor configured to:
- determine which of the communications channels to employ together as a bonded channel group;
- obtain source data from the input interface for transmission to an electronic device;
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- selectively assign the source data to at least two of the communication channels of the local area network in the bonded channel group for transmission to the electronic device over at least two of the different network types based on a data type of a content of the source data, the data type comprising at least one of audio data, video data, or other types of data.
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A method comprising:
- within a gateway processor:
- obtaining a packet stream comprising content;
- dividing the packet stream into communication units;
- identifying a bonded channel group of communication channels among a set of available communication channels, wherein a first channel of the bonded channel group has a first network type and a second channel of the bonded channel group has as second network type different from the first network type;
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- distributing, based at least in part on a data type of the content of the packet stream, the communication units across the bonded channel group within an in-home network for transmission to an electronic device in the in-home network.
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A method comprising:
- obtaining a packet stream;
- dividing the packet stream into communication units, each of the communication units divided from the packet stream having a respective packet data type of a plurality of packet data types;
- identifying a bonded channel group of communication channels among a set of available communication channels, wherein a first channel of the bonded channel group has a first network type and a second channel of the bonded channel group has as second network type different from the first network type;
- assigning a first communication unit of the packet stream to the first channel of the bonded channel group for transmission to an electronic device based on the first communication unit having a first packet data type of the plurality of packet data types;
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- assigning a second communication unit of the packet stream to the second channel of the bonded channel group for transmission to the electronic device based on the second communication unit having a second packet data type of the plurality of packet data types, the second packet data type differing from the first packet data type.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.