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Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2001
Applicants:

Michael Freed, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Satish Kumar Amara, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);

Inventors:

Michael Freed, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Satish Kumar Amara, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);

Assignee:

3COM Corporation, Marlborough, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for avoiding network congestion. An exemplary packet forwarding device may apply policy rules to incoming packets to assign relative drop probabilities to the packets based on the priority of the packets. In times of network congestion, packets may be selectively dropped according to their associated drop probability.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Freed, Michael. (2006). Policy-based weighted random early detection method for avoiding congestion in internet traffic (U.S. Patent No. 6996062). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6996062

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