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US 8,554,860 B1Granted
Traffic segmentation
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorsFred S. Cook, Durga P. Satapathy
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for forwarding message packets over a network having at least one dedicated priority route. The priority messages are identified and only those priority messages having a length less than or equal to a threshold message length are transmitted over the priority route.
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An apparatus for controlling the flow of message packets across a message packet network comprising:
- an entry router that provides access to the message packet network, the message packet network having at least one transmission route dedicated to the transmission of priority message packets having a selected message length and application;
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- an admission controller connected to said entry router and adapted to receive message packets from a network user;
- said admission controller operative to examine the header of each message packet generated by said user and, upon determining that a message packet includes a priority message identifier in said message packet header to compare the length of said priority message packet to a fixed threshold priority message packet length that is selected as a function of said application of said priority message packets, said admission controller being further operable, upon determining that said priority message packet is one of less than and equal to said threshold priority message packet length to forward said priority message packet over said message packet network via said dedicated priority transmission route, said admission controller also being operative, upon determining that said priority message packet is longer than said threshold priority message packet length to remove said priority message identifier from said message packet header and to then forward the resulting message packet over the message packet network via a non-priority message route.
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A method for controlling the flow of message packets across a message packet network comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing an admission controller adapted to receive and screen message packets from a network user, the admission controller connected to the message packet network, the message packet network including at least one transmission route dedicated to transmission of priority message packets having a selected message length and application;
- (b) receiving a message packet from a network user for transmission over the message packet network;
- (c) examining the message packet header to determine that the message header includes a priority message identifier;
- (d) comparing the length of the message packet to a fixed threshold priority message packet length that is selected as a function of said application of said priority message packets;
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- (e) forwarding the priority message over the dedicated priority message route only upon determining that the priority message length is one of less than and equal to the threshold priority message packet length and forwarding the message over a non-priority message route upon determining that the message length is greater than the threshold priority message packet length.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.