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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Minh Duong-van, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventor:
Minh Duong-Van, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Physics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A buffer size for a router configured to receive packets transmitted through a communications network is temporarily increased at a time instant corresponding to an onset of congestion of the router for a time period that may be approximately equal to a round-trip packet time in the network. The increase in buffer size may be accomplished by providing an auxiliary storage area for packets that would otherwise be stored in a queue at the router, for example an auxiliary storage area associated with a physical storage device external to the router.