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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2006
Ganesh Balakrishnan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Jorge R. Rodriguez, Cary, NC (US);
Ganesh Balakrishnan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Jorge R. Rodriguez, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the invention provide an improved solution for processing packets in a packetized communications network. For example, a next packet in a set of incoming packets placed in a plurality of queues is selected by obtaining a random/pseudo-random search key and identifying one of the plurality of queues based on the search key and a Patricia tree that includes at least one child node for each of the plurality of queues. A greedy algorithm can be used to select an alternative queue should the first selected queue be empty.