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BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT IN A HOME NETWORK

  • US 20130159531A1
  • Filed: 12/19/2011
  • Published: 06/20/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2011
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method within a home network for coordinating the self-imposed cooperation amongst clients for sharing different network connections, comprising:

  • maintaining information for said connections that logically represents the different connections as independent pools of usable bandwidth and that indicates the amount of bandwidth available for use from each pool;

    receiving advertisements from clients advertising tentative use of a specified amount of bandwidth drawn from each of one or more pools;

    notifying clients regarding whether or not, according to said information, the one or more pools from which their respective advertised uses would draw from each have the specified amount of bandwidth available; and

    independently updating each pool to indicate that any bandwidth notified as being available from that pool is now unavailable.

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