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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2004
Bruce S. Davie, Cambridge, MA (US);
Subhasri Dhesikan, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael V. Dibiasio, Westford, MA (US);
William Foster, Nanaimo, CA;
David R. Oran, Acton, MA (US);
Bruce S. Davie, Cambridge, MA (US);
Subhasri Dhesikan, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael V. DiBiasio, Westford, MA (US);
William Foster, Nanaimo, CA;
David R. Oran, Acton, MA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique enables resources to be shared among data flows that may have different senders (sources) and/or different receivers (destinations) in a data network. Identifiers are associated with data flows and used to indicate whether resources may be shared between data flows. The identifiers are carried in signaling messages used to reserve resources for data flows. An existing data flow that is associated with an identifier that matches an identifier associated with a new data flow is allowed to share resources its resources with the new data flow.