| US 7,580,425 B1 | ||
| Facilitating bandwidth allocation in a passive optical network | ||
| David Eckard, Garner, N.C. (US); Andras Kovacs, Reston, Va. (US); and Kenneth Waters, Garner, N.C. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Alcatel Lucent, Paris (France) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 21, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/19,068. | ||
| Int. Cl. H04J 3/22 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—468 [370/537; 370/395.4] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A grant generation apparatus, comprising:
means for enabling selective access of paired entries of information, wherein each one of said paired entries corresponds
to a respective one of a plurality of optical network termination units and wherein a first entry of each one of said paired
entries is a grant value and a second entry of each one of said paired entries is a residual value;
means for adding corresponding entries of said means for enabling selective access whereby a result for each one of said pairs
is generated, wherein said means for adding is coupled to said means for enabling access;
means for generating grants coupled to said means for adding, wherein said means for generating grants is configured for generating
grants corresponding to all of said paired entries and wherein said means for generating grants is configured for generating
a grant for a particular instance of said means for adding in response to the result for the particular instance of said adding
being not less than a prescribed number of intervals.
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