US 12,414,095 B2
Bandwidth allocation device and bandwidth allocation method
Hiroyuki Uzawa, Yokosuka (JP); Tatsuya Shimada, Yokosuka (JP); Daisuke Hisano, Yokosuka (JP); and Hiroko Nomura, Yokosuka (JP)
Assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/725,148.
Application 17/725,148 is a continuation of application No. 16/483,715, granted, now 11,329,749, previously published as PCT/JP2018/004046, filed on Feb. 6, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-023365 (JP), filed on Feb. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0263594 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04J 3/16 (2006.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/0453 (2013.01) [H04J 3/1605 (2013.01); H04J 3/1682 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/12 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bandwidth allocation device which allocates a bandwidth to a terminal device, the terminal device relays upstream data received from a communication terminal the bandwidth allocation device comprising:
at least one memory configured to store instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to:
receive, from a first device upstream to the bandwidth allocation device, resource information;
specify, from the resource information, a base time for transmitting by a second device the upstream data and an amount of upstream data for a time period during which the second device transmits the upstream data, the second device is downstream to the terminal device; and
allocate to the terminal device, a bandwidth for transmitting by the second device the upstream data on a basis of a time at which the base time and a processing latency spent for internal processing in the second device are added together, and the amount of upstream data.