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Technique for delivering and enforcing network quality of service to multiple outstations

  • US 7,830,914 B1
  • Filed: 10/21/2002
  • Issued: 11/09/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for delivering network quality of service from a head-end to a plurality of outstations, the method comprising the steps of:

  • assigning a transmit duration for each one of the plurality of outstations for a cycle by the head-end;

    receiving a control message from an outstation indicating extra capacity at the outstation; and

    assigning a transmit frequency via a scheduler for each one of the plurality of outstations by the head-end, the scheduler running as a spinner on a disk having zones for each of the plurality of outstations, wherein the outstation over whose zone a needle of the spinner is passing is allowed to transmit, and wherein the transmit frequency is a number of times that the outstation transmits during the cycle;

    wherein bandwidth for each one of the plurality of outstations is adjusted dynamically for the cycle at the head-end.

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