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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2006
Applicant:
Darryl Jonathan Rumph, Cary, NC (US);
Inventor:
Darryl Jonathan Rumph, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G06F 9/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Apparatus and method that schedules movement of packets within network devices, such as network processors, includes a calendar using a segmented hierarchical routine to identify the next packet to be moved from one of a plurality of flow queues.