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Patent Inventor Names
Robert H. Utley0
Gary F. Chard0
Date of Patent
July 24, 2012
Patent Application Number
09871269
Date Filed
May 31, 2001
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Patent abstract
A system and method for communicating the current congestion state of a destination virtual output queue to a plurality of source queues in order to allow the source queues to adjust their data rates in real time for each class of service is disclosed. The preferred embodiment method comprises tracking the amount of data for one or more classes of service entering and leaving at least one destination queue associated with an output port; determining the amount of available space in the destination queue; creating a message based at least in part on the determined amount of available space; and transmitting the created message to a plurality of source queues at least one of which is providing data to the destination queue.
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