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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
May. 03, 2008
Brahmanand Kumar Gorti, Cary, NC (US);
Marco Heddes, Lawrence, MA (US);
Clark Debs Jeffries, Durham, NC (US);
Andreas Kind, Kilchberg, CH;
Michael Steven Siegel, Raleigh, NC (US);
Brahmanand Kumar Gorti, Cary, NC (US);
Marco Heddes, Lawrence, MA (US);
Clark Debs Jeffries, Durham, NC (US);
Andreas Kind, Kilchberg, CH;
Michael Steven Siegel, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for transmitting packets in a packet switching network. Packets received by a packet processor may be prioritized based on the urgency to process them. Packets that are urgent to be processed may be referred to as real-time packets. Packets that are not urgent to be processed may be referred to as non-real-time packets. Real-time packets have a higher priority to be processed than non-real-time packets. A real-time packet may either be discarded or transmitted into a real-time queue based upon its value priority, the minimum and maximum rates for that value priority and the current real-time queue congestion conditions. A non-real-time packet may either be discarded or transmitted into a non-real-time queue based upon its value priority, the minimum and maximum rates for that value priority and the current real-time and non-real-time queue congestion conditions.