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Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2001
Applicants:

Daisuke Matsubara, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Satoshi Yoshizawa, Saratoga, CA (US);

Kenichi Otsuki, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Daisuke Matsubara, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Satoshi Yoshizawa, Saratoga, CA (US);

Kenichi Otsuki, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A core network that includes a number of relay nodes and edge nodes, intercoupled by network links, interconnects a plurality data transfer entities through gateway elements. Each gateway element is allocated a portion of the data communicating (QoS) resource of certain of the links, and maintains information of that allocation. When a gateway receives a request for a data transfer from a data transfer entity with a particular communicating resource requirement, it will check its associated information to determine of the allocated resource is sufficient. If not, the gateway may ask for a reconfiguration of resources that re-allocate communicating resource from one gateway element to the asking gateway element.


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