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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/863 (2013.01); H04L 12/875 (2013.01); H04L 12/865 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/6275 (2013.01); H04L 47/6215 (2013.01); H04L 47/6255 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes determining whether a packet received at a network node in a communications network is a high priority packet; determining whether a low priority queue of the network node has been deemed to be starving; if the packet is a high priority packet and the low priority queue has not been deemed to be starving, adding the packet to a high priority queue, wherein the high priority queue has strict priority over the low priority queue; and if the packet is a high priority packet and the low priority queue has been deemed to be starving, adding the packet to the low priority queue.