Patent ID: 9294387
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04L,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a central office (CO) node, a message from a customer premises equipment (CPE) node, the message including contents of a remote discovery register of the CPE node, the remote discovery register being remotely readable and writable, the remote discovery register to indicate whether multiple physical medium interfaces of the CPE node have been allocated to aggregation as a single communication link, the remote discovery register corresponding to at least one of the multiple physical medium interfaces; comparing, at the CO node, the contents to a discovery code value to determine whether the physical medium interfaces of the CPE node have been allocated to the aggregation; and if, as a result of the comparing, the CO node determines that the multiple physical medium interfaces of the CPE node have not been allocated to the aggregation, sending, from the CO node, a request to allocate the multiple physical medium interfaces to the aggregation.