Patent ID: 11924110
Assignee: nan
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system for prioritizing network traffic in a network, which includes a plurality of traffic flows flowing through the network, the system comprising:
a plurality of logic modules distributed within the network and configured to receive policy data as well as the plurality of traffic flows, each logic module comprising:
a control processor configured to communicate with control processors in others of the plurality of logic modules;
a packet processor configured to receive at least some of the plurality of traffic flows and, with the control processor, determine traffic data for each of the traffic flows, assign priority to each of the traffic flows based on the traffic data, and determine a traffic action for each of the traffic flows based on the received policy data and the assigned priority; and
at least one shaper object configured to receive the determined traffic action from the packet processor and enforce the determined traffic action on each of the traffic flows, wherein the control processor is configured to determine available bandwidth for the plurality of logic modules based on the aggregated bandwidth for each priority of the plurality of traffic flows from each of the plurality of logic modules and the packet processor is configured to also determine the traffic action based on the available bandwidth.