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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1999
Mark William Branstad, Rochester, MN (US);
Jonathan William Byrn, Kasson, MN (US);
Gary Scott Delp, Rochester, MN (US);
Philip Lynn Leichty, Rochester, MN (US);
Todd Edwin Leonard, Williston, VT (US);
Gary Paul McClannahan, Rochester, MN (US);
John Emery Nordman, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin Gerard Plotz, Byron, MN (US);
John Handley Shaffer, Rochester, MN (US);
Albert Alfonse Slane, Oronoco, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and Gigabit Ethernet communications adapter are provided for implementing communications in a communications network. A transmission queue is defined of data to be transmitted. A transmission rate is set for the transmission queue. Data to be transmitted are enqueued on the transmission queue. The transmission queue can be subdivided into multiple priority queues, for example, using time wheels, and a transmission rate is set for each transmission queue.