US 11,722,432 B1
Methods for managing multi-channel network traffic
Bernardo Huberman, Palo Alto, CA (US); Lin Cheng, Superior, CO (US); Luis Alberto Campos, Superior, CO (US); and Thomas Sandholm, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US)
Filed by Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/559,695.
Application 17/559,695 is a continuation of application No. 16/403,152, filed on May 3, 2019, granted, now 11,240,175.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/683,696, filed on Jun. 12, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/666,241, filed on May 3, 2018.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 47/80 (2022.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04L 41/5025 (2022.01); H04L 41/5009 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 47/808 (2013.01) [H04L 41/5009 (2013.01); H04L 41/5025 (2013.01); H04W 28/0268 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of managing multi-channel network traffic comprising:
gathering data associated with each network user's traffic;
for a plurality of network users, allocating the data associated with each network user's traffic to one or more channels of the multi-channel network to identify allocations on an efficient frontier;
starting from the allocations on the efficient frontier, further allocating the data associated with each network user's traffic to one or more of the channels to obtain secondary allocations;
calculating a mean and variance of the data according to each of the secondary allocations;
identifying one or more of the secondary allocations as providing beneficial allocations of network traffic when the secondary allocation minimizes the variance of traffic in each channel; and
implementing one of the beneficial allocations on the multi-channel network.