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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2012
F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Alan B. Mimms, Spokane, CA (US);
Timothy S. Michels, Greenacres, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Hawthorne, Seattle, WA (US);
William R. Baumann, Seattle, WA (US);
F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and medium is disclosed which includes selecting, at a software component of a network traffic management device, a first bucket having a first predetermined transmit time. The disclosure includes populating one or more selected data packet descriptors associated with one or more corresponding data packets in the first bucket. The disclosure includes releasing the first bucket to a hardware component of the network traffic management device, wherein the hardware component processes the one or more data packet descriptors of the first bucket for the first predetermined transmit time.