| US 7,606,188 B2 | ||
| Explicit congestion notification for DOCSIS based broadband communication systems | ||
| Mark Dale, Laguna Hills, Calif. (US); David Hartman, Laguna Hills, Calif. (US); Dorothy Lin, Laguna Beach, Calif. (US); Rocco Brescia, Newport Coast, Calif. (US); Alan Gin, Corona Del Mar, Calif. (US); Ravi Bhaskaran, Irvine, Calif. (US); Jen-chieh Chien, Lake Forest, Calif. (US); and Adel Fanous, Irvine, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 05, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/633,630. | ||
| Application 11/633630 is a continuation of application No. 10/420909, filed on Apr. 23, 2003, granted, now 7,145,888, filed on Dec. 05, 2006. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/374491, filed on Apr. 23, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0147281 A1, Jun. 28, 2007 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. H04B 7/212 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—321 [370/442; 370/447] | 4 Claims |
| 1. A method of identifying a message collision in an upstream channel of a satellite based DOCSIS communications system, comprising:
generating, by a satellite gateway, a media access protocol (MAP) message having a plurality of fields, the generating including
identifying a message collision between satellite modems in an unused explicit congestion notification (ECN) field of the
MAP message,
wherein the ECN field (i) is a reserved field in a standard Data Over Cable Interface Specification 1.1 MAP message and (ii)
includes at least one subfield.
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