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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2002
Applicants:
Tom Davis, Ottawa, CA;
Predrag Kostic, Burnaby, CA;
Inventors:
Tom Davis, Ottawa, CA;
Predrag Kostic, Burnaby, CA;
Assignee:
Alcatel Canada Inc., Kanata, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A policing technique for a telecommunications traffic of variable length packets is described. The technique uses a plurality of police engines, grouped in pairs. A selection module selects a police engine pair to process a packet. Each police engine contains a conformance unit, credit unit and a debit unit, in which the credit update of one police engine influences the credit update of the other police engine in the pair. The technique also uses a combinatorial function to decide on a category of a processed packet and which police engines to update their debit units.