H04L 47/564
Attaching a deadline to packets
Official title: {Attaching a deadline to packets, e.g. earliest due date first}
H04L47/564 (Attaching a deadline to packets) appears on 264 US grants and 276 published applications in this corpus.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Enforcement of end-to-end transaction latency25 Aug 2026US 12,717,609 B2Nokia Technologies Oy
- Message scheduling method, network device, storage medium, and computer program product28 Apr 2026US 12,615,218 B2Zte Corporation
- Information processing method, network device, network system, and storage medium10 Mar 2026US 12,574,330 B2Zte Corporation
- PFC storm detection and processing method10 Mar 2026US 12,574,335 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Method and apparatus for scheduling packets for transmission23 Dec 2025US 12,506,676 B2Marvell Israel (M. I. S. L.) Ltd.
- Method and Device for Active Queue Management Offload20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246746 A1Mediatek Inc.
- Packet Scheduling Method, Network Device, Storage Medium, and Computer Program Product2 Apr 2026US 2026/0095417 A1Zte Corporation
- No empty and initial advance for self-clocked round robin scheduler13 Nov 2025US 2025/0350566 A1Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Systems for and methods for queue management for latency control30 Oct 2025US 2025/0337693 A1Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
- Method, apparatus and system for time stamping and sequencing data items3 Jul 2025US 2025/0217887 A1BGC Partners, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for systolic array sorting of information segments1,364US 6,879,596 B1Applied Micro Circuits Corporation · 2005
- Hierarchical packet scheduling method and apparatus207US 5,850,399 AAscend Communications, Inc. · 1998
- Multi-channel support for virtual private networks in a packet to ATM cell cable system189US 6,917,614 B1Arris International, Inc. · 2005
- Age-based network arbitration system and method132US 6,674,720 B1Silicon Graphics, Inc. · 2004
- Method and apparatus for supplying requests to a scheduler in an input buffered multiport switch120US 6,160,812 ACabletron Systems, Inc. · 2000