Managing traffic within a data communication network

G Balakrishnan, JP Chalmers, CD Jeffries… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
A flow control method and system including an algorithm for deciding to transmit an arriving
packet into a processing queue or to discard it, or, in the case of instructions or packets that …

Method and arrangement for congestion control in packet networks

S Belenki - US Patent App. 10/063,483, 2002 - Google Patents
The present invention refers to a method and arrangement for controlling congestion of a
network node capacity shares used by a set of data flows in a communications network …

System and method for controlling communications network traffic through phased discard strategy selection

A Blanc, F LeMaut - US Patent 6,982,956, 2006 - Google Patents
Congestion at an output from a node in a packet data communications network is controlled
by maintaining a traffic profile based on the discardability/priority character istics of recently …

Retro flow control for arriving traffic in computer networks

JJ Allen Jr, BM Bass, GT Davis, CD Jeffries… - US Patent …, 2008 - Google Patents
The decision within a packet processing device to transmit a newly arriving packet into a
queue to await further processing or to discard the same packet is made by a flow control …

Retro flow control for arriving traffic in computer networks

JJ Allen Jr, BM Bass, GT Davis, CD Jeffries… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
The decision within a packet processing device to transmit a newly arriving packet into a
queue to await further processing or to discard the same packet is made by a flow control …

Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network

RJ Kloth, TJ Edsall, M Fine, DG Dutt - US Patent 6,643,260, 2003 - Google Patents
A content addressable memory (CAM or L3 Table) contains flow information for each active
flow of packets passing through a given node of a data communications network. The CAM …

Per-flow dynamic buffer management

AV Bechtolsheim, DR Cheriton - US Patent 6,515,963, 2003 - Google Patents
The present invention provides a per-flow dynamic buffer management scheme for a data
communications device. With per-flow dynamic buffer limiting, the header information for …

Per-flow dynamic buffer management

AV Bechtolsheim, DR Cheriton - US Patent 7,215,641, 2007 - Google Patents
The present invention provides a per-flow dynamic buffer management scheme for a data
communications device. With per-flow dynamic buffer limiting, the header information for …

Arrangement and method relating to traffic control

H Rönneke, H Bengtsson - US Patent 7,616,570, 2009 - Google Patents
The present invention relates to an arrangement and a method for flow control of data
packets in a communications system supporting communication of packet data. The …

Technique for implementing an admission control scheme for data flows

J Aweya, M Ouellette, DY Montuno - US Patent 7,221,656, 2007 - Google Patents
A technique for implementing an admission control scheme for data flows is disclosed. In
one embodiment, the technique is realized by determining a current error value in response …