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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 04, 1999
Mohammed Nikuie, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher D. Bergen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining a percent utilization of shared resource and fine resolution scaling of a threshold based on the utilization is described. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting a cell that belongs to a VC queue where the VC queue includes a cell count, a minimum threshold cell count, and a maximum threshold cell count. The cell count is compared with the minimum threshold cell count. If the cell count is greater than (or equal to) the minimum threshold cell count, the method further includes determining a ratio between the cell count and the maximum threshold cell count, selecting a scaling factor responsive to the ratio, scaling the cell count by the scaling factor to provide a scaled cell count, comparing the scaled cell count with a maximum threshold cell count, and discarding the cell if the scaled cell count is greater than the maximum threshold cell count.