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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2014
Applicant:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Inventor:
Robert John Briscoe, London, GB;
Assignee:
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/835 (2013.01); H04L 12/863 (2013.01); H04L 12/825 (2013.01); H04L 12/833 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/30 (2013.01); H04L 47/263 (2013.01); H04L 47/31 (2013.01); H04L 47/624 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for changing a packet tag status value from a first value to a different value upon said packet arriving at a buffer if there already is a packet in the buffer queue having the same first status value. A sequence of tag status values () in packets received at an end node is used to determine the queue length of the buffer in the packet network. An end node can thereafter adapt its sending rate to the rate of the buffer.