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Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2008
Applicants:

Orlie Thomas Brewer, Jr., Issaquah, WA (US);

Alimuddin Mohammad, Redmond, WA (US);

Arun Ayyagari, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Orlie Thomas Brewer, Jr., Issaquah, WA (US);

Alimuddin Mohammad, Redmond, WA (US);

Arun Ayyagari, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

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

A system for conveying priority associated with a communication conveyed among networks includes: (a) a first network originating the communication in packets; each respective packet including two segments; a first segment containing a portion of the communication in information payload bits in a first encoding scheme; a second segment containing overhead information relating to the packet in overhead bits in a second encoding scheme; a number of the overhead bits being configured to indicate the priority; and (b) a second network cooperating with the first network to alter encoding of the first segment of a selected packet-set to express the information payload bits in a third encoding scheme that is unreadable in the second network; the second network employing the priority-indicating bits to ascertain priority for handling the communication by the second network; the second network preempting lower priority resources to reserve resources for higher priority packet-sets.


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