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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2018
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Penn L. Pfautz, Middletown, NJ (US);
Huajin Jeng, Middletown, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for advertising network layer reachability information specifying a quality of service for a network flow are disclosed. An example first network device disclosed herein is to advertise a first flow specification and a first quality of service for a first network flow to be received by the first network device, and access a second flow specification and a second quality of service advertised by a second network device for a second network flow that is to be received by the second network device. The example first network device is also to update bits of an incoming packet that belongs to the second network flow to determine an updated incoming packet, and assign the updated incoming packet to a routing queue corresponding to the second quality of service to cause the updated incoming packet to be routed towards the second network device.