Patent ID: 11864020
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A method comprising:
determining a data amount in a first buffer;
calculating an estimated throughput needed to satisfy the data amount in the first buffer;
determining whether the estimated throughput is sufficient to service the data stored at the first buffer;
determining, in response to the throughput being determined to be insufficient to service the data, whether a counter value for a counter is less than a threshold value;
emptying, in response to the counter value being above the threshold, a second buffer;
in response to the counter value being less than the threshold value:
padding the second buffer with a padding amount;
incrementing the counter value; and
iteratively repeating the method by returning to the calculating with the incremented counter value.