Traffic management and overload control system for packet-based networks
CA 2215486 A1 · Owner: Alcatel · Inventors: Luguern, Jean-Pierre; Accarion, Michel
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The invention concerns a traffic management process for a virtual connection of a packet-based communication network the process consisting in: - transmitting from source client hardware, packets intended for destination client hardware; - time-division multiplexing the packets from different source client hardware; - measuring the flow of multiplexed packets; - temporarily storing the multiplexed packets in a queue; - transmitting the stored packets over the virtual connection; - determining a channel use factor related to the packet transmission flow over the virtual connection toward destination client hardware; - transmitting this channel use factor to flow management means in order to …
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- Filed September 30, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 30, 2017.
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