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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1997
Hidehiro Fukushima, Fujisawa, JP;
Kenji Kawakita, Urawa, JP;
Naoya Ikeda, Ebina, JP;
Masashi Kamegaya, Zama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A router device facilitates management of connection of a manager and assures communication quality of each of the connections. The router device determines a communication quality required by the communication of the packet in reference to a protocol information, an application acknowledging information and a priority information, transmits the control packet having the determined communication quality set therein to another router device contained in the same connection and further performs a traffic control (a preferential processing of a packet or the like) satisfying a communication quality indicated by the transmitted or received control packet in respect to the packet of the aforesaid connection.