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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2005
Applicant:
Mark Litwack, West Chester, PA (US);
Inventor:
Mark Litwack, West Chester, PA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system for correcting a congestion condition within a network, the method including notifying the sender and receiver of a multimedia data flow or flows that the multimedia data flows have been dropped due to the presence of the congestion condition. The method including the steps of determining at least one multimedia data flow that will be dropped to relieve the congestion condition; constructing notification messages for the source and destination of the dropped flows; and sending the notification message to the source and destination of the dropped multimedia data flows.