Quality of service in a voice over IP telephone system

An information handling system comprising:

• a TCP/IP network;
• a hub;
• a multimedia server coupled to the hub via the TCP/IP network;
• a first IP telephony device coupled to the hub via the TCP/IP network;
• a first network device coupled to the first IP telephony device;
• a second network device coupled to the hub via the TCP/IP network, wherein data sent from the first network device is addressed for transmission to the second network device and is transmitted through the first IP telephony device to the TCP/IP network, wherein the first IP telephony device includes first circuitry for monitoring if an amount of multimedia data being addressed to the IP telephony device and received over the TCP/IP network falls below a first predetermined threshold, wherein the first IP telephony device includes first circuitry for throttling the data sent from the first network device in response to the first monitoring circuitry determining that the amount of multimedia data being received by the first IP telephony device over the TCP/IP network falls below the first predetermined threshold.

In an information handling system comprising a hub, a multimedia server (“multimedia server”) coupled to the hub, a telephone coupled to the hub, a workstation coupled to the hub through the telephone, and a data server coupled to the hub, a method comprising the steps of:

• transferring data from the workstation to the telephone, wherein the data sent from the workstation is addressed for transmission to the data server;
• communicating audio information between the telephone and the multimedia server;
• and
• sufficiently throttling the data sent from the workstation to the telephone to increase a rate of transfer of the audio information during the communicating step, wherein the throttling step further comprises the step of monitoring an amount of the audio information being received by the telephone from the multimedia server.

In an information handling system comprising a hub, a multimedia server (“multimedia server”) coupled to the hub, a telephone coupled to the hub, a workstation coupled to the hub through the telephone, and a data server coupled to the hub, a method comprising the steps of:

• transferring data from the workstation to the telephone, wherein the data sent from the workstation is addressed for transmission to the data server;
• communicating audio information between the telephone and the multimedia server;
• and
• sufficiently throttling the data sent from the workstation to the telephone to increase a rate of transfer of the audio information during the communicating step, wherein the throttling step further comprises the step of reducing a future amount of data from being transferred from the workstation if the amount of data exceeds a predetermined threshold.

In an information handling system comprising a hub, a multimedia server (“multimedia server”) coupled to the hub, a telephone coupled to the hub, a workstation coupled to the hub through the telephone, and a data server coupled to the hub, a method comprising the steps of:

• transferring data from the workstation to the telephone, wherein the data sent from the workstation is addressed for transmission to the data server;
• communicating audio information between the telephone and the multimedia server;
• and
• sufficiently throttling the data sent from the workstation to the telephone to increase a rate of transfer of the audio information during the communicating step, wherein the throttling step further comprises the step of monitoring an amount of the audio information being received by the telephone from the multimedia server, wherein the monitoring step further comprises the step of the telephone sending a congestion message to the multimedia server when the amount of the audio information falls below the predetermined level.