Hybrid cable-wireless system
AssigneeRogers Communications Inc.
InventorsGeorge Maynard HART, Edward A. O'LEARY, Victor KUARSINGH
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods and system for managing transmission of data between a hub and a receiver, the hub connected to the receiver by a first transport medium, and the hub connected to the receiver by a wireless network, the method comprising receiving a request from the receiver to transmit data upstream; determining that the data transmission across the first transport medium is congested; and, in response to determining that the data transmission across the first transport medium congested, instructing the receiver to transmit data upstream on the wireless network.
Claims20
A method of managing transmission of data between a hub and a receiver, the hub connected to the receiver by a first transport medium, and the hub connected to the receiver by a wireless network, the method comprising:
- receiving a request from the receiver to transmit data upstream;
- determining that the data transmission across the first transport medium is congested;
- and,
- in response to determining that the data transmission across the first transport medium congested, instructing the receiver to transmit data upstream on the wireless network.
A modem controller for managing transmission of data between a hub and a receiver, the modem controller being associated with the hub, the modem controller connected to the receiver by a first transport medium, and the modem controller connected to the receiver by a wireless network, the modem controller configured to:
- receive a request from a receiver to transmit data upstream;
- determine that the rate of data transmission across the first transport medium from the receiver is greater than a predetermined upstream threshold;
- in response to determining that the rate of data transmission across the first transport medium from the receiver is greater than the predetermined upstream threshold, instructing the receiver to transmit data upstream on the wireless network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.