System and method for providing quality of service operations using IP addresses
US7136382B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 24, 2001 |
| Grant date | Nov 14, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 31, 2023 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2101/604
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed for using unused address bits of an IPv6 address to carry quality of service (QoS) request information over a computer network, such as the Internet, so that at intermediate nodes along the network the routers and switches thereat may easily determine the QoS being requested for packets and forward the packets with the requested QoS.
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