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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2009
Tobias Moncaster, Colchester, GB;
Robert J Briscoe, Woodbridge, GB;
Arnaud Jacquet, Ipswich, GB;
Alessandro Salvatori, San Jose, CA (US);
Tobias Moncaster, Colchester, GB;
Robert J Briscoe, Woodbridge, GB;
Arnaud Jacquet, Ipswich, GB;
Alessandro Salvatori, San Jose, CA (US);
British Telecommunications public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
Methods and systems for assigning information indicative of a network characteristic to one of a plurality of data units traversing a path across a network, said data units having associated therewith values indicative of said network characteristic, said path having at least one portion passing through a lower-capability region and at least one portion passing through a higher-capability region, said lower-capability region being a region in which information indicative of said network characteristic may be represented by values having a first resolution, and said higher-capability region being a region in which information indicative of said network characteristic may be represented by values having a second resolution, said second resolution being greater than said first resolution, said one data unit being a data unit entering said higher-capability region.