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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2004
Stephan Brandenburg, Germering, DE;
Thomas Treyer, München, DE;
Oliver Veits, Dachau, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
The packet-oriented communications facility comprises at least one token-bucket unit, which comprises a time-bucket unit and of a byte-credit unit. Data volume tokens, which each represent a predetermined data volume, are stored in the byte-credit unit. A token generation time interval and a token generation time are assigned to the time-bucket unit. In addition, a processing time is assigned to each data packet before the subsequent processing. In the time-bucket unit, the transmission time interval available for the subsequent processing of a data packet is determined, and a portion of the available transmission time interval is converted into data volume tokens solely in the event that the token generation time interval is exceeded by the determined available transmission time interval. The generated data volume tokens are stored in the byte-credit unit, and the token generation time is updated. The data volume required for subsequently processing the data packet is subsequently allocated in such a manner that the number of data volume tokens of the byte-credit unit corresponding to data volume are removed.