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US 11,271,867 B2Granted
Gateway for transporting out-of-band messaging signals
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorsKevin N. Taylor, Doug Jones
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Abstract
A Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) having a gateway configured to output signals on over data tunnels for transfer over a cable network to Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). Each data tunnel is preferably characterized as a one-way data stream of out-of-band (OOB) messaging signals.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving, from a first computing device, at least one downstream channel descriptor message indicating:
- an association between a first network address and a first data tunnel;
- an association between a second network address and a second data tunnel;
- a first type of data carried in the first data tunnel;
- and
- a second type of data, different from the first type, carried in the second data tunnel;
- wherein the receiving the at least one downstream channel descriptor message is via a third data tunnel;
- receiving, from the first computing device and via the first data tunnel, first data of the first type;
- receiving, from the first computing device and via the second data tunnel, second data of the second type;
- and
- processing, by a second computing device and after processing the at least one downstream channel descriptor message, the first data of the first type and the second data of the second type.
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A method comprising:
- sending, to a receiving device, at least one indication comprising associations between network addresses and data tunnels of different types, wherein the indication is sent via a data tunnel separate from the data tunnels of the different types;
- sending, to the receiving device and via the data tunnels of the different types, data of the different types;
- and
- causing the receiving device to processes the indication before processing the data of the different types.
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A method comprising:
- sending, to a computing device, at least one indication associating a plurality of different network addresses with a plurality of data tunnels of different types, wherein the at least one indication is sent via a data tunnel different from the plurality of data tunnels;
- sending, via the plurality of data tunnels of the different types and to the computing device, a plurality of signals;
- and
- causing the computing device to process the at least one indication before processing the plurality of signals.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.