Cross layer coordinated channel bonding

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8973076-B2
Application number	US-201414187527-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2014
Priority date	Mar 11, 2012
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

Different data communication architectures receive a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, for consumers. The architectures employ channel bonding to deliver more bandwidth than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, the communication architectures receive distributed video programming in the form of MPEG2 TS packets, flagged by marker packets. Channel bonding synchronization information may be present in packets defined above the data-link layer or received in fields within data-link layer frames.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a first interface configured to receive, from a channel in a bonded channel group:
bonding information for the bonded channel group, the bonding information encapsulated at a first layer of a communication protocol stack; and
program data in a payload encapsulated at a second layer of the communication protocol stack that is different than the first layer;

a collator coupled to the first interface, the collator configured to:
ex…

Assignees

• Broadcom Corp

Inventors

• Chen Xuemin
• Mamidwar Rajesh Shankarrao
• Wan Wade Keith
• Krafft Stephen Edward
• Zhou Guangcai

Classifications

• H04L41/0896

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/236 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/0813

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L5/0032

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/23655 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic