APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DATA QUEUES IN A NETWORK

• US 20160234128A1
• Filed: 10/23/2015
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Incorporated (BAE Systems Plc)
• Original Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Incorporated (BAE Systems Plc)
• Inventors: ROBERTSON, JEFFREY E., RICKARD, DALE A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,832,135 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/52 by attributing bandwidth to queues
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/6215 Individual queue per QOS, rate or priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/6275 based on priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/6295 using multiple queues, one for each individual QoS, connection, flow or priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/90 Buffering arrangements

Abstract

An apparatus for managing data queues is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least one sensor for collecting data, a data interface for receiving data from the sensor(s) and for placing the collected data in a set of data queues, and a priority sieve for organizing the set of data queues according to data priority of a specific task. The priority sieve includes a scoreboard for identifying queue priority and a system timer for synchronization.

Claims

5. An apparatus for managing data queues, said apparatus comprising:

a plurality of computing devices, each having at least one sensor for collecting data, a data queue and a priority sieve, wherein an aggregate of all priority sieves in all of said computing devices represents one priority sieve, wherein said one priority sieve organizes said plurality of data queues according to data priority of a specific task; and

a system timer for coordinating said plurality of computing devices to manage said plurality of data queues, wherein said system timer includes a system timer master connected to one of said plurality of computing devices, and a plurality of system timer slaves each connected to the remaining of said plurality of computing devices.

6-1. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said scoreboard includes a plurality of pages, wherein each page contains a set of registers to be associated with a data queue.