US 11,456,924 B2Granted

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for internet of things-based DOCSIS

AssigneeCox Communications, Inc.

InventorJeffrey L. Finkelstein

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Abstract

The disclosed systems are directed to Internet of Things (IoT) devices and techniques. In particular, the disclosed systems can identify an IoT device and a corresponding device type to be scheduled for a data transmission or a data reception over at least one wired or wireless network; determine a data priority associated with the IoT device, the data priority corresponding to the device type; determine, based at least in part on the data priority or the device type, a bandwidth and a time for data transmission or reception to or from the IoT device using an IoT data over cable service interface specification (IoT DOCSIS) protocol; generate a grant packet in accordance with a service flow, the service flow registered for the second device; and communicate with the second device at the time and at the bandwidth.

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Dependent claims

A device, comprising:

at least one memory device that stores computer-executable instructions;
and
at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory device, wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to:
determine an internet of things (IoT) device, the IoT device having a corresponding device type, to be scheduled for at least one of a data transmission or a data reception over at least one wired or wireless network;
determine a data priority associated with the IoT device, the data priority associated with a device type;
determine, based at least in part on the data priority or the device type, a bandwidth and a time for data transmission or reception to or from the IoT device using an IoT data over cable service interface specification (IoT DOCSIS) protocol, wherein the IoT DOCSIS protocol is a different protocol than a DOCSIS protocol;
generate a grant packet in accordance with a service flow, the service flow registered for a second IoT device;
receive first data formatted in accordance with a first protocol;
generate, based on the first data, second data formatted in accordance with the DOCSIS protocol;
generate, based on the second data, third data by filtering the second data to remove DOCSIS overhead data of the first data;
and
cause to send the third data to the second IoT device at the time and at the bandwidth.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.