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Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2017
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ian Bastable, Fareham, GB;

James Cunningham, Winchester, GB;

Gareth John Bowen, Chandlers Ford, GB;

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/865 (2013.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/6275 (2013.01); H04L 47/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a gateway includes a memory, and a processor to, in response to receiving a plurality of content requests, generate a plurality of network flows and flow buffers, each one content request of the plurality of content requests being served by one network flow of the plurality of network flows, and one flow buffer of the plurality of flow buffers, the one flow buffer being included in the memory, the plurality of network flows including a first flow and a second flow, the first flow serving one of the plurality of requests having a first priority level, the second flow serving one of the plurality of requests having a second priority level, the first priority level being higher than the second priority level, and run a network arbiter to give prioritize reading the first flow over reading the second flow when the first flow is non-idle.


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