Patent ID: 9319326
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A communication system, comprising: a traffic management module; and a communication interface module, wherein the communication interface module is arranged to: estimate a status of multiple channels by utilizing hardware channel status estimators, wherein the multiple channels are DOCSIS compliant channels, generate filler packets in response to the status of the multiple channels, wherein the filler packets are associated with the multiple channels, and wherein the number or size of the filler packets generated is set in response to the status of the multiple channels, and send the filler packets to the traffic management module, wherein the traffic management module is arranged to: receive multiple input packets that are associated with multiple channels, receive the filler packets, and apply a traffic management scheme on the multiple input packets and the filler packets to provide multiple intermediate packets that comprise (a) multiple filler traffic managed packets and (b) multiple non-filler traffic managed packets, and wherein the communication interface module is further arranged to: receive the multiple intermediate packets, extract the multiple non-filler traffic managed packets, and transmit the multiple non-filler traffic managed packets over the multiple channels.