ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,672, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).
"Cable modem upstream bandwidth allocation" was invented by Lei Zhou (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a cable modem network, upstream bandwidth is allocated to service flows by receiving requests from modems, wherein each request identifies an amount of requested bandwidth for a corresponding requesting service flow; determining how much best-effort bandwidth to allocate for each requesting service flow; determining how much remaining bandwidth is available after taking into account all of the best-effort bandwidth for t...