Patent ID: 6704323
Filing Date: 2004-03-09
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
A method for automatically configuring subscriber equipment with a network interface unit for adapting the subscriber equipment to a terminal unit of a digital network, whose data rate can be adaptively adjusted dependent on the actual transmission conditions in the digital network, comprising the steps of:determining a current maximum possible data rate between the network interface unit and said terminal unit with an exchange of messages between said network interface unit and said terminal unit; comparing the current maximum possible data rate determined in said determining step to a value, which is stored in the subscriber equipment, of a previous maximum possible data rate; storing the current maximum possible data rate in the subscriber equipment if said comparing step reveals a deviation between said current maximum possible data rate and the previous maximum possible data rate; comparing the current maximum possible date rate to a data rate demand of currently existing connections of terminal device applications of the subscriber equipment; and configuring the current maximum possible data rate as the maximum allowable data rate of the network interface unit if the data rate demand of currently existing connections does not exceed the current maximum possible data rate.