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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A packet transfer deviceincludes a packet classification unitconfigured to classify received packets, queuesfor respective classifications, priorities being set to the queues, a dequeue processing unitconfigured to extract packets from the queue under a predetermined rule based on the priorities set to the queues, and a queue priority control unitconfigured to perform control, upon detecting that a reception amount of packets related to a communication flow temporarily or intermittently increases from a reception amount under a normal condition, such that a priority of one of the queues holding the packets related to the communication flow is temporarily raised from a priority under the normal condition, during a period while the reception amount of packets related to the communication flow temporarily or intermittently increases.