36 results about "Normal priority" patented technology

A method for arbitration among a plurality of requesting devices for a shared resource in which one device is an ultra high priority device grants access to one requesting device at a time. The ultra high priority device is granted access if it requests access interrupting access by another device. The ultra high priority device is limited to a selectable number of accesses and thereafter is masked for a selectable interval. This interval permits access may by other devices. Each of the other devices is also limited to a selectable number of accesses followed by re-arbitration. The other devices can have a normal priority or a time out priority if a request hasn't been granted in a selectable amount of time.

Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for multi-layer network interface controller (NIC) operation. An aspect of the invention may utilize a two (2) level work-conserving scheduling system for network interface controller operation and may comprise tracking for all L4 / L5 offload connections with active transmit requirements as well as layer 2 (L2) level transmit requirements. The first level may comprise a round-robin scheme that may be utilized to select the next high priority, normal priority, and layer 2 (L2) transmit requirement independently. The send level arbitration may comprise a work-conserving programmable weighted round-robin priority scheme that may be utilized to select amongst the transmit tasks selected by the first level priority scheme.

Embodiments of methods and systems for overlapping priority contention windows in G3-PLC networks are presented. In one embodiment, a Normal Priority Contention Window (NPCW) is allowed to overlap with a High Priority Contention Window (HPCW). The minimum contention window for the normal priority frames (i.e., NPCW) is equal to or longer than the contention window for high priority frames (i.e., HPCW). By making the NPCW longer than the HPCW, the high priority frames will have a better chance than normal priority frames to get access to the channel on transmission reattempts.

The present invention relates to the communications technologies. Disclosed are an access control method and apparatus. After a rejection message that is returned by a network side and carries a back-off level indication is received, a back-off timer is started, and a terminal is forbidden in a set time from accessing the network through an access request of a set priority. Since access requests of all priorities are not rejected, when a user accesses the network through an access request of a normal priority or an access request of a higher priority, the user is not forbidden by a back-off timer that rejects a low priority, so that it is implemented that a terminal with a low access priority can initiate normal priority access after being denied for accessing.

Graphics processing systems and methods are described. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises a graphics processing unit (GPU), the GPU including a high priority command streamer to dispatch high priority commands from an application, a normal priority command streamer to receive normal priority commands through a command path, one or more execution units, and a thread dispatcher. The thread dispatcher to dispatch normal priority commands to the one or more executions units, determine the high priority command streamer includes at least one command, cause the one or more execution units to save their states, and dispatch at least one command from the high priority queue to the one or more execution units.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for reserving a connection's home path resources and restoring the connection on a link that includes a reserved priority bandwidth. A bandwidth advertisement indicating that the reserved priority bandwidth is available is analyzed and a restoration request requesting to route the connection on the link is sent. The reserved priority bandwidth is used to route the connection when the connection has a reserved home path on the link. When the connection has a reserved home path not on the link, a determination is made as to whether a normal priority bandwidth on the link is available and whether the connection is unrestorable on another link. The reserved priority bandwidth is used to temporarily route the connection when normal priority bandwidth on the link is unavailable and the connection is unrestorable on another link.

The invention discloses an overload control method for the Internet of things, which mainly aims to solve the problem that network congestion cannot be relieved when the proportion of low-priority traffic is low in a conventional downlink throttling method for the Internet of things. The method comprises that: a mobility management entity (MME) or a serving general packet radio service (GPRS) supporting node (SGSN) monitors a real-time load value of a network, and judges whether throttling is required or not; if the network is in a congested state, a serving gateway (SGW) starts performing throttling on the low-priority traffic, and simultaneously the MME or SGSN judges whether the network congestion can be relieved only by performing the throttling on the low-priority traffic or not according to a throttling effect; and if the network congestion cannot be relieved only by performing the throttling on the low-priority traffic, the SGW starts performing the throttling on normal-priority traffic, and quits a throttling state after throttling delay is finished. By the method, the applicability and efficiency of the conventional scheme are enhanced by expanding downlink throttled traffic, and the problems of function failures of the conventional scheme when the proportion of the low-priority traffic is low can be effectively solved.

A system for processing voicemail is provided that includes a voicemail database processor establishing one or more of an accounts table, a messages table, a distribution list table, a distribution lists members tables, and a delete request table. In operation a message navigation menu is provided to a user to allow the user to move back and forth a specified number of voicemails, change between urgent and normal priority voicemails, retrieve messages only from a specific mailbox or from outside the system, or initiate an improved deletion operation.