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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2002
Applicant:
Daniel Paul Heyman, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Daniel Paul Heyman, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An overload control mechanism in a packet-based network includes computing thresholds for respective classes of traffic so that packets of a given class are discarded when the number of buffered packets for that class exceeds the associated threshold.