Edward G Cavasian

US Patent:

7239612, Jul 3, 2007

Filed:

Oct 18, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/035791

Inventors:

Philip D. Cole - Redwood City CA, US
Nils Ramon Marchant - Ocean Reef, AU
Mike Reynolds - Sublaco, AU
Edward G. Cavasian - San Carlos CA, US
James P. Scott - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc - Fremont CA

International Classification:

H04J 1/16
H04J 3/14

US Classification:

3702301, 370231, 370237, 3703951, 370412, 709240

Abstract:

A method and apparatus are provided for discarding a priority fair share of traffic of network connections. In one example, the method receives traffic of at least a particular network connection. A portion of a fixed buffer allocation space is filled with traffic of the particular network connection, wherein a buffer in the fixed buffer allocation space is associated with a fixed buffer allocation queue identification. A portion of a prioritized fair share buffer space is filled with traffic of the particular network connection, wherein a buffer in the prioritized fair share buffer space is associated with a priority fair share queue identification. A portion of the lowest priority traffic of the network connections is discarded.