METHOD FOR BALANCING OF MODEM LOAD

• US 20100014425A1
• Filed: 10/30/2008
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Cheng, Shu-Min, Lo, Yew-Min
• Application Number:
  US12/261,037
• Publication Number:
  US 20100014425A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/235
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2898 Subscriber equipments DSL modems H04M11/062; cable modems H04L12/2801
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/125 by balancing the load, e.g. traffic engineering

Abstract

A method for achieving load balance of a modem (21) corresponding to a terminal (20) in a network (100) comprises selecting upstream channel descriptors (UCDs) in the network, checking the terminal for any proven-usable UCD records, determining a prior range of the UCDs according to the checking result, selecting the UCDs in the prior range and checking upstream channels corresponding thereto, and marking the unusable UCDs and storing the UCDs corresponding to usable upstream channel as new proven-usable records in the terminal.

Claims

1. A method for achieving load balance of a modem corresponding to a terminal in a network, comprising:

selecting upstream channel descriptors (UCDs) in the network;

checking the terminal for history of a usable UCD therein;

determining a prior range of the UCDs according to the result;

selecting the UCDs in the prior range and checking upstream channels corresponding thereto; and

marking the UCDs corresponding to unusable upstream channel as unusable, and storing the UCDs corresponding to usable upstream channels as new proven-usable records in the terminal.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising selecting all UCDs and checking upstream channels corresponding thereto when no usable UCD record is found in the terminal.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein selection of all UCDs and checking of upstream channels corresponding thereto is random.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising comparing the current UCDs with the usable UCD history when at least one usable UCD record is found in the terminal, and determining the prior range according to the comparison results.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising, if at least one of the current UCDs matches the usable UCD history, marking the usable UCD history matching the current UCDs as the prior range, and selecting the UCDs in the prior range and checking the upstream channels corresponding thereto.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising, when a selected UCD in the prior range corresponds to a usable upstream channel, using the upstream channel to achieve a load balance of the modem, and retaining the usable UCD record of the selected UCD.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising, if none of the UCDs in the prior range corresponds to a usable upstream channel, deleting all usable UCD history from the terminal, and selecting all current UCDs out of the prior range and checking their corresponding upstream channel.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein selection of all current UCDs and checking of upstream channels corresponding thereto is random.

9. The method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising selecting all current UCDs and checking their corresponding upstream channel when none of the current UCDs matches the usable UCD history.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein all current UCDs are selected and upstream channels corresponding thereto checked in random order.