System for routing packets by separating packets in to broadcast packets and non-broadcast packets and allocating a selected communication bandwidth to the broadcast packets

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5793978
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08367509

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A method and system for routing packets, in which the resources consumed by broadcast packets are limited. Broadcast packets are placed in a separate queue that is managed independently of the buffer interface queue for non-broadcast packets. The broadcast queue is limited to a selected amount of communication bandwidth; when the amount of broadcast traffic exceeds the selected bandwidth, broadcast messages are queued and held for transmission until later (i.e., when the selected amount of bandwidth becomes available). An operator may specify a maximum number of broadcast packets to be sent in any one second period, an a maximum number of broadcast packet bytes to be sent in any one second period.

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  • CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.;CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fowler, Gregory Alan Mountain View, CA 2 72

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