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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1994
John E Drake, Jr, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Elizabeth A Hervatic, Cary, NC (US);
Joseph W Pace, Cary, NC (US);
Ralph J Potok, Cary, NC (US);
David E Taber, Wake Forest, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A management system for local area networks ensures selected levels of quality of service to all transmission requests submitted to the management system. This management system is attached to the network and receives requests from all other stations on the network to reserve facilities for a particular quality of service data stream. An allocator in the management system determines if the requested facilities are available and, if so, reserves these facilities for the requesting station. If the facilities are not available, the request is denied. A hierarchical data base containing all of the current parameters of all of the network resources and all of the currently supported data streams is used to support the allocation process.