Systems and methods for providing quality of service via a flow controlled tunnel
US8433783B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 29, 2010 |
| Grant date | Apr 30, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 29, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/825
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing Quality of Service (QoS) via a flow controlled tunnel. Traffic from a plurality of applications may be directed into a single connection or flow-controlled tunnel and QoS policies may be applied across the plurality of applications without configuration of individual link speeds, enabling QoS scheduling to dynamically adjust traffic transmission and reception rates to ensure priority management of applications regardless of a final endpoint of the application communications. Accordingly, traffic of different types, including VPN, HTTP, Voice-over-IP (VoIP), remote desktop protocol traffic, or other traffic may be easily balanced and prioritized. In many embodiments, the tunnel may be transparent to applications, such that without any application configuration, application traffic may still be prioritized by QoS requirements.
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