Patent ID: 8553577

Claim:
A method for determining system data in a data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) system, the method comprising: computing fiber nodes in each media access control (MAC) domain (MD) and MAC Domain CM Service Group (MD-CM-SG); computing registered cable modems in each MD and MD-CM-SG; and for each MD and MD-CM-SG, allocating the registered cable modems in each the MD and MD-CM-SG among the fiber nodes in a cable modem-service group (CM-SG) included in a respective MD-CM-SG; and computing the registered cable modems for each fiber node; wherein computing the number of fiber nodes in each MD and MD-CM-SG comprises utilizing the DOCSIS Management Information Base (MIB) object docsIf3MdNodeStatusEntry to obtain the MD and MD-CM-SGs and fiber nodes for each MD and MD-CM-SG.