Differentiated priority level communication

US20100158006A1Inactive Publication Date: 2010-06-24BCE
15 Cites 4 Cited by

Patent Information

Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Current Assignee / Owner
BCE
Publication Date
2010-06-24
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

Smart Images

  • Figure 1
    Figure 1
  • Figure 2
    Figure 2
  • Figure 3
    Figure 3
Patent Text Reader

Abstract

Provided are methods, apparatuses and systems for providing prioritized data distribution at a customer premise. A network access component may receive priority information from a trusted source, the priority information being indicative of an association between at least one identifier and a respective priority level. The network component may determine a particular identifier associated with data received from a communication entity. The network access component may determine a particular priority level associated with the data based on the particular identifier and the priority information. The network component may also prioritize at least a portion of the data on a basis of the particular priority level.
Need to check novelty before this filing date? Find Prior Art

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

[0001] This application claims priority from International Application No. not yet available, entitled “Differentiated Priority Level Communication” filed in the Canadian Receiving Office on Dec. 23, 2008 and hereby incorporated by reference herein.FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0002] The present invention relates to the field of network communication and more particularly to the field of network communication with different priority levels for different types of data.BACKGROUND

[0003] Packet-based networks such as the internet tend to employ best-effort forwarding strategies whereby packets travel through the network with no particular guarantees regarding travel time or jitter. In certain instances, however, network services require or would benefit from certain guarantees or preferential treatment and systems have been developed to provide higher priority for certain packets and to guarantee certain Quality of Service (QoS) standards for these packets. P...

Claims

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More