Patent ID: 11863451
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor and at least one machine-readable medium storing executable instructions which when executed by the at least one processor configure the apparatus to:
receive a packet including a request for network state information;
generate one or more temporal congestion signals that include at least a line busyness signal based on a duration of a busy period of a device by:
if the device has one or more items in a queue of the device, generating the line busyness signal based on a difference between an arrival time of the packet and a start time of the busy period of the device; and
if the device has no items in the queue of the device, generating the line busyness signal based on a difference between a start time of an idle period of the device and the start time of the busy period of the device;

add the one or more temporal congestion signals to the packet; and
transmit the packet including the one or more temporal congestion signals.