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Quality of service application programming interface over socket

  • US 7,830,804 B2
  • Filed: 01/16/2008
  • Issued: 11/09/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus comprising:

  • a memory; and

    a quality of service (QoS) API over socket (QAoS) module that is independent of an operating system (OS) of a computing device and that is configured to be communicatively coupled to a MAC layer of a network access device by way of a QoS management and reporting communications protocol that is tunneled over sockets between the QAoS and the MAC layer of the network device, the network access device configured to provide network access to the computing device, the QAoS operable to access MAC layer QoS functions of the network device to thereby control and manage QoS of computing device data communications streams provided through the network access device.

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