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AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsMark Dale, David Hartman, Dorothy Lin, Rocco Brescia, Alan Gin, Ravi Bhaskaran, Jen-chieh Chien, Adel Fanous
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Satellite communications are carried out using the Data Over Cable Interface Specification (DOCSIS). Satellite modems are notified of upstream channel congestion by inserting a congestion notification message in a medium access protocol (MAP) message for the upstream channel. Specifically, the congestion notification message is inserted in an unused field of the MAP message, such as the explicit congestion notification (ECN) field. The MAP message can also carry other characteristics of the upstream channel, including priority threshold, multicast access burst availability, and available bandwidth.
In a DOCSIS communications system having an upstream channel and a downstream channel, a method of identifying a message collision in the upstream channel, comprising the steps of:
In a DOCSIS communications system having an upstream channel, a method of communicating a characteristic of the upstream channel to a plurality of modems in the (DOCSIS) communications system, comprising the steps of:
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