US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 23 for "Managing upstream transmission in a network" (Colorado, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,126, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Managing upstream transmission in a network" was invented by Jorge Salinger (Littleton, Colo.) and David J. Urban (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bandwidth allocation and monitoring method may divide available bandwidth on a shared communication medium into a plurality of discrete tones that can be individually allocated to modems on an as-needed basis. The effective modulation rate that a particular modem can use for each discrete tone can be monitored over time using a schedule of pilot tones transmitted from the modems on...