Patent ID: 11888731
Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A system, comprising: a first device configured to: receive a packet comprising one or more labels from a second device over a network, wherein each of the one or more labels identifies a path through the network for the packet; detect congestion on the network; generate a first copy of the packet; perform a first action on one of the one or more labels of the first copy of the packet, wherein the first action comprises at least one of: adding a first new label to the one or more labels, swapping one of the one or more labels with a second new label, and removing one of the one or more labels; generate, responsive to detecting the congestion, a second copy of the packet; add congestion information into the second copy of the packet; perform the first action on the second copy of the packet; and provide the first copy and the second copy including the congestion information to a third device over the network.