Patent ID: 6915358
Filing Date: 2005-07-05
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a cable modem termination system for receiving a bandwidth request to transfer a data packet from a data provider, wherein said cable modem termination system allocates bandwidth to the data provider, wherein said allocated bandwidth is less than said requested bandwidth, wherein said cable modem termination system receives part of said data packet in said allocated bandwidth from the data provider, wherein said part of said data packet includes information indicating whether a reassembly session is in progress and a fragment header, wherein said fragment header includes a sequence number for said part of said data packet; and a reassembly processor for storing said part of said data packet in external memory, wherein said reassembly processor reassembles said data packet by concatenating in the correct sequence said part of said data packet with other parts of said data packet, thus forming a reassembled data packet.