Patent ID: 8553704
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: initializing a first radio frequency (RF) channel from a wideband cable modem to a cable modem termination system; initializing a second RF channel from the wideband cable modem to the cable modem termination system; streaming data packets into a queue on the wideband cable modern for an upstream cable transmission via the first and second RF channels; sending a plurality of requests for upstream bandwidth to transmit the queued data from the queue, wherein the requests are associated with different portions of the queued data; receiving back a bandwidth grant for one of the portions of the queued data; and in response to receiving back the bandwidth grant, transmitting, upstream, data from the queue onto the first and second RF channels and disassociated from the bandwidth grant, including parsing one or more blocks of data from at least one of the data packets in the queue, and transmitting the one or more blocks of data distinct from the at least one data packet onto at least one of the first or second RF channels, enabling data in the queue to be parsed and transmitted in arbitrary data sizes.