US 12,470,983 B1
System and method for fast relay for bandwidth allocation signaling
Dorin Viorel, Erie, CO (US); and Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Boulder, CO (US)
Assigned to Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US)
Filed by CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC., Louisville, CO (US)
Filed on Nov. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/982,259.
Application 17/982,259 is a continuation of application No. 16/989,154, filed on Aug. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,496,928.
Application 16/989,154 is a continuation of application No. 16/372,124, filed on Apr. 1, 2019, granted, now 10,743,215, issued on Jul. 22, 2020.
Application 16/372,124 is a continuation of application No. 15/148,260, filed on May 6, 2016, granted, now 10,256,895, issued on Mar. 20, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/249,431, filed on Nov. 2, 2015.
Int. Cl. H04W 28/20 (2009.01); H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04W 84/20 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/20 (2013.01) [H04B 7/15542 (2013.01); H04W 84/20 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for bandwidth allocation, comprising:
a parent multi-hop relay including a processor and non-transitory memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the parent multi-hop relay to:
associate the parent multi-hop relay with at least one child device and at least one grandchild device associated with one of the at least one child device;
generate, at the parent multi-hop relay, bandwidth allocation data, the bandwidth allocation data defining a parent-child bandwidth allocation between the parent multi-hop relay and each child device, and a child-grandchild bandwidth allocation between the at least one child device and each grandchild device;
transmit, from the parent multi-hop relay, the bandwidth allocation data to each at least one child device.