Patent ID: 11902168
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A method of defining priority of a number of data packets within a queue, comprising:
receiving a policy, the policy defining whether date packets are sent over a first multiplexed channel and a second multiplexed channel based at least on part on applications from which the data packets are generated, wherein:
the first multiplexed channel has a first priority; and
the second multiplexed channel has a second priority, and
wherein the first priority is defined as being of a higher priority relative to the second priority;

routing the data packets over the first multiplexed channel and the second multiplexed channel based at least in part on the policy;
adding the number of data packets transmitted over the first multiplexed channel and the second multiplexed channel to the queue; and
processing, at the queue, the number of data packets transmitted via the first multiplexed channel prior to processing the number of data packets transmitted via the second multiplexed channel based at least in part on the policy, the policy further defining processing the data packets with the queue based at least in part on:
a first mean sojourn time and a first average number of data packets for high priority (HP) data packets sent via the first multiplexed channel; and

a second mean sojourn time and a second average number of data packets for low priority (LP) data packets sent via the second multiplexed channel.