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OwnerStefan Frey, Thomas Siegrist +1inventors
InventorsStefan Frey, Thomas Siegrist, Ramon Felder
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A communication device according to the present invention enhances transfer of time-critical data between one or more LANs and a device (e.g., edge router, etc.) coupled to a backbone network. A virtual bottleneck in the form of a queue is introduced by the communication device at the customer premises or customer end of a backbone network access line where the network congestion or bottleneck resides. The virtual bottleneck delays and/or discards time insensitive traffic prior to time-critical or voice traffic being delayed in the edge router. This is accomplished by the virtual bottleneck queue including a storage capacity or length less than that of a queue utilized by the edge router. A traffic manager or scheduler controlling the virtual bottleneck dynamically adjusts the virtual bottleneck based on the bandwidth required for time-critical packets to ensure sufficient bandwidth is available for those packets.
A communication device disposed between an end-user unit and a network to prioritize transfer of data comprising:
A program product apparatus including a computer readable medium with computer program logic recorded thereon for prioritizing transfer of data of a designated type relative to other data within a communication device disposed between an end-user unit and a network, said program product apparatus comprising:
A carrier signal including computer program logic embedded therein for prioritizing transfer of data of a designated type relative to other data within a communication device disposed between an end-user unit and a network, said carrier signal comprising:
A method of prioritizing transfer of data of a designated type relative to other data within a communication device disposed between an end-user unit and a network comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.