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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2011
Mitri Halabi, San Jose, CA (US);
Yuen Fai Wong, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Colvin, San Jose, CA (US);
Frank S. Yang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mitri Halabi, San Jose, CA (US);
Yuen Fai Wong, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Colvin, San Jose, CA (US);
Frank S. Yang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Brocade Communication Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Congestion control techniques based upon resource utilization information stored by a network device. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a network device is configured to identify a data source causing congestion based upon information stored by the network device identifying a set of data sources, and for each data source, information identifying the amount of a resource of the network device being used for processing data received by the network device from the data source.