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US 11,128,834 B2Granted
Unification sublayer for multi-connection communication
AssigneeCable Television Laboratories, Inc.
InventorAlireza Babaei
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Abstract
Managing Internet Protocol (IP) flows to produce multi-connection communication is contemplated, such as but not necessarily limited to managing a single IP flow simultaneously through disparate physical layers (PHYs). A unification sublayer may be configured as a logical interface between a network layer and a data link layer and/or the disparate PHYs to facilitating partitioning of IP packets included in the IP flow.
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A method for managing an Internet Protocol (IP) flow in a multi-connection communication network, comprising:
- partitioning data packets of the IP flow into first data packets and second data packets at a first node, at least partially based on capabilities of devices that are operating in the multi-connection communication network;
- encapsulating the first data packets into encapsulated first data packets at the first node;
- encapsulating the second data packets into encapsulated second data packets at the first node;
- transmitting the encapsulated first data packets from the first node to a second node using a first transmission protocol;
- transmitting the encapsulated second data packets from the first node to the second node using a second transmission protocol that is different from the first transmission protocol;
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- communicating between a first physical layer associated with the first transmission protocol and a second physical layer associated with the second transmission protocol via a logical interface between the first physical layer and the second physical layer.
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