Patent 7962147 was granted and assigned to Broadcom (company) on June, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of receiving information from one or more wireless uplink channels is provided. The method includes receiving information at a media access controller (MAC) from a first set of one or more wireless uplink channels in response to bandwidth allocation map (MAP) messages sent from the MAC and receiving information at the MAC from a second set of one or more wireless uplink channels in response to MAP messages sent by another MAC.