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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Puqi P. Tang, Portland, OR (US);
Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 ; H04L 1/256 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 ; H04L 1/256 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are presented that may dynamically characterize network traffic so that a user application can reserve appropriate network resources for submitting traffic to a network. According to one embodiment, at least one value characterizing the traffic is generated and transmitted to the network. This value can be dynamically updated to ensure that an appropriate amount of network resources is reserved. Using this method and apparatus, the risk of either over-subscribing network resources or failing to reserve enough resources to provide necessary quality of service (QoS) may be eliminated.