Patents by Inventor Martin W. McKinnin

Martin W. McKinnin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Allocating access across a shared communications medium of a DOCSIS 1.0 compliant cable network
    Patent number: 6917628
    Abstract: A method of incorporating allocations of network access in a DOCSIS 1.0 compliant cable network, wherein users compete for bandwidth, includes limiting bandwidth consumed by a cable modem of a user to a value representative of that user's bandwidth allocation for a time interval. Preferably, the method includes the steps of: (a) generating cable modem configuration files, each of which limits bandwidth consumption by a cable modem of a user to a bandwidth allowance of that user equaling to the respective bandwidth allocation; (b) sending the configuration files to a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) Server of the DOC Network; and (c) sending a command either to each user's cable modem, or to a cable modem termination system to which each user's cable modem is connected, to cause the cable modem to implement the respective new configuration file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin W. McKinnin, III, Mani M. Subramanian, Timothy Sean Sotack, Oleg M. Kolesnikov, James E. Harrell, Jr.
  • Allocating access across a shared communications medium of a DOCSIS 1.0 compliant cable network
    Publication number: 20010038645
    Abstract: A method of incorporating allocations of network access in a DOCSIS 1.0 compliant cable network, wherein users compete for bandwidth, includes limiting bandwidth consumed by a cable modem of a user to a value representative of that user's bandwidth allocation for a time interval. Preferably, the method includes the steps of: (a) generating cable modem configuration files, each of which limits bandwidth consumption by a cable modem of a user to a bandwidth allowance of that user equaling to the respective bandwidth allocation; (b) sending the configuration files to a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) Server of the DOC Network; and (c) sending a command either to each user's cable modem, or to a cable modem termination system to which each user's cable modem is connected, to cause the cable modem to implement the respective new configuration file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventors: Martin W. McKinnin, Mani M. Subramanian, Timothy Sean Sotack, Oleg M. Kolesnikov, James E. Harrell