US 7,321,616 B2
Method and apparatus for increasing soft modem capacity
Robert David Wachel, Altadena, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/746,606.
Application 10/746606 is a continuation of application No. 09/608824, filed on Jun. 30, 2000, granted, now 6,700,917.
Prior Publication US 2004/0136449 A1, Jul. 15, 2004
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04B 1/38 (2006.01); H04L 5/16 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 375—222  [375/220; 375/221; 375/225; 375/227] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
queuing one or more retrain requests;
responding to the queued retrain requests within a period of time to one or more modems that correspond to the queued retrain requests, wherein the period of time establishes an allowable number of the queued retrain requests;
assigning priorities to the queued retrain requests in response to an occurrence frequency of the retrain requests; and
retrieving the queued retrain requests in response to the assigned priorities.