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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2021
Applicant:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jaroslaw J. Sawczuk, Rutland, MA (US);

Nayan S. Patel, Bedford, MA (US);

Assignee:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04L 47/6275 (2022.01); H04L 47/52 (2022.01); H04W 40/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1242 (2013.01); H04L 47/522 (2013.01); H04L 47/6275 (2013.01); H04W 40/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are described for buffering data traffic destined for a mobile device when a data path to a base station for the mobile device is unavailable. For example, a network device comprises: a control unit comprising processing circuitry, wherein the control unit is configured to allocate, in response to determining that a data path from the network device to the base station for a mobile device is unavailable, a hardware queue of a packet processor of the network device to the data path; and a forwarding component with access to the hardware queue, wherein the forwarding component is configured to store data traffic for the mobile device to the allocated hardware queue, wherein the control unit is configured to, in response determining that the data path is available, configure the forwarding component to output the data traffic from the allocated hardware queue to the base station along the data path.


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