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Triggering bandwidth reservation and priority remarking

  • US 7,822,046 B2
  • Filed: 11/29/2006
  • Issued: 10/26/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • one or more processors; and

    a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to;

    monitor received traffic to detect a communication sent using a network address translator discovery protocol;

    identify resource requirements that correspond to a call flow associated with the detected communication in response to detecting the communication, the resource requirements identified without requiring heuristical determination; and

    reserve network resources for the call flow according to the identified resource requirements;

    wherein the resource requirements are identified independently of heuristical determination by accessing a Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs) (STUN) attribute included in the detected communication.

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