Patent ID: 7983147

Claim:
A method of setting a Receive Channel Set (RCS) of a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS), the method comprising: receiving a Receive Channel Profile (RCP) with respect to a downstream physical layer of a cable modem (CM); composing a plurality of Receive Channel Configurations (RCCs) required for setting the RCS of the CM with reference to the RCP, the plurality of RCCs including at least an RCC for initial setting of the RCS and an RCC for a subsequent setting of the RCS in the event that the initial setting fails; and encoding the plurality of RCCs, and transmitting the encoded plurality of RCCs to the CM in a registration response transmitted after each of the plurality of RCCs are composed, wherein the encoded plurality of RCCs including the RCC for initial setting of the RCS and the RCC for the subsequent setting of the RCS in the event that the initial setting fails is sent in the registration response before receiving a Registration Acknowledge from the CM.