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Policy based quality of service

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  • US 6,678,248 B1
  • Filed: 06/20/2000
  • Issued: 01/13/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for bandwidth management in a packet forwarding device, comprising:

  • identifying a quality of service (QoS) metric corresponding to a traffic group, the QoS metric defining a minimum QoS for the traffic group;

    receiving a data packet associated with the traffic group;

    placing the data packet into one of a plurality of queues;

    identifying a current measure of network performance with respect to parameters specified in the QoS metric; and

    removing the data packet from the queue if a difference between the current measure and the minimum QoS falls within a threshold.

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