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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2006
Jason Sterne, Ottawa, CA;
Robert John Johnson, Ottawa, CA;
Aaron Maxwell Macdonald, Ottawa, CA;
Richard Grieve, Ottawa, CA;
James Michael Schriel, Ottawa, CA;
Jason Sterne, Ottawa, CA;
Robert John Johnson, Ottawa, CA;
Aaron Maxwell MacDonald, Ottawa, CA;
Richard Grieve, Ottawa, CA;
James Michael Schriel, Ottawa, CA;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method for incorporating a queuing device as a lossless processing stage in a network device in a communications network, comprising: monitoring a depth of a queue in the queuing device, the queue for receiving packets from an upstream device within the network device, the queuing device acting as a discard point by discarding packets when the queue is full; and, if the depth passes a predetermined threshold, sending a message to the upstream device to reduce a rate at which packets are sent to the queuing device to prevent the queue from filling and thereby preventing packet discarding and loss by the queuing device.