Patent ID: 7577162
Filing Date: 2009-08-18
Classification: H04J

Abstract:
1. A method of allocating a bandwidth of a network, the network including an office terminal and a plurality of peripheral terminals that communicate with the office terminal by time division multiplexing during a sequence of transmitting cycles, the method comprising: receiving a predicting bandwidth of a predetermined one of the peripheral terminals, the predicting bandwidth being based on an amount of data expected to be transmitted to the predetermined one of the peripheral terminals during one of the transmitting cycles; receiving a waiting bandwidth of the predetermined one of the peripheral terminals, the waiting bandwidth defining an amount of data waiting to be transmitted from the predetermined one of the peripheral terminals to the office terminal during said one of the transmitting cycles; adjusting the predicting bandwidth based on a weight value; generating a requested bandwidth for the predetermined one of the peripheral terminals by adding the adjusted predicting bandwidth to the waiting bandwidth; and allocating a transmitting bandwidth to determine an amount of data that can be uploaded by the predetermined one of the peripheral terminals through the network based on the requested bandwidth.