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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2005
Lewis S. Kootstra, Roseville, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Watts, Folsom, CA (US);
Lewis S. Kootstra, Roseville, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Watts, Folsom, CA (US);
Hewlett—Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Devices, systems, and methods are provided involving queue management. One embodiment includes a computing device having a priority aware queue. In this embodiment, the device includes a queue having a number of counters associated therewith to monitor a number of items each having a classification level associated therewith. The device also includes computer executable instructions to review each of the number of counters to determine whether to discard the item based upon whether at least one of the counters indicates that a higher classification item is being held in the queue.