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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:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2002
Applicants:
Jussi Ruutu, Espoo, FI;
Jani Lakkakorpi, Helsinki, FI;
Vilho I. Raisanen, Helsinki, FI;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A scheduling system for IP routers is provided. A programmable scheduler for IP routers can support single stage and multistage scheduling. This allows flexible combinations of scheduling and widens dramatically the available QoS solutions to operators. With this kind of scheduling the router can be configured to support almost any known scheduling method or combination. Priority Queuing (PQ) and Deficit Round Robin (DRR) scheduling is scheduling is used according to one embodiment of the invention.