Patent ID: 9363017
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A communication device, comprising: a multi-point media access controller (MAC) controller to allocate coax resources for signals to be transmitted over a cable plant; a coax physical layer device (PHY) to transmit the signals over the cable plant using the allocated coax resources; and a MAC, coupled to the multi-point MAC controller and the coax PHY, to provide a bitstream comprising data for the signals and information specifying the allocated coax resources to the coax PHY, the bitstream further comprising data frames to convey the data for the signals and idle character sequences between the data frames, wherein times between successive data frames in the bitstream specify the allocated coax resources; wherein: a respective data frame in the bitstream is followed by a respective idle character sequence; and the coax PHY is to map the respective data frame to an amount of coax resources determined by a ratio of a sum of durations of the respective data frame and the respective idle character sequence to a predefined symbol duration.