US 12,341,858 B1
Dynamic cable operator plant discovery
Heitor J. Almeida, Elmsford, NY (US); Jaison Antony, Dix Hills, NY (US); John Markowski, Smithtown, NY (US); and Peter Caramanica, Westbury, NY (US)
Assigned to CSC Holdings, LLC, Bethpage, NY (US)
Filed by CSC Holdings, LLC, Bethpage, NY (US)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/429,830.
Application 18/429,830 is a continuation of application No. 17/972,794, filed on Oct. 25, 2022, granted, now 11,909,832.
Application 17/972,794 is a continuation of application No. 16/999,675, filed on Aug. 21, 2020, granted, now 11,489,931.
Application 16/999,675 is a continuation of application No. 16/039,669, filed on Jul. 19, 2018, granted, now 10,757,198.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/51 (2022.05) [H04L 41/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A service provider system within a point-to-multipoint communication system, the service provider system comprising:
physical layer (PHY) circuitry having a first wireless PHY device that is compliant with a wireless communication standard or protocol and a first wireline PHY device that is compliant with a wireline communication standard or protocol; and
processor circuitry configured to:
select the first wireless PHY device to provide a service provider identification signal to a plurality of subscriber devices within the point-to-multipoint communication system, the service provider identification signal including information identifying the service provider system,
receive a request from a subscriber device from among the plurality of subscriber devices for subscriber device configuration information in response to the subscriber device discovering the service provider identification signal, the subscriber device configuration information identifying:
a second wireless PHY device of the subscriber device and a first type of information to be transferred between the first wireless PHY device and the second wireless PHY device, and
a second wireline PHY device of the subscriber device and a second type of information to be transferred between the first wireline PHY device and the second wireline PHY device, and
provide the subscriber device configuration information to the subscriber device to configure the second wireless PHY device to transfer the first type of information between the first wireless PHY device and the second wireless PHY device and the second wireline PHY device to transfer the second type of information between the first wireline PHY device and the second wireline PHY device.