Patent ID: 11882041
Assignee: MARVELL ISRAEL (M.I.S.L) LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method for congestion avoidance in a network, comprising:
detecting, at a network device, congestion in a packet flow, the packet flow being i) one packet flow among a plurality of packet flows and ii) being formed of a plurality of packets of a same type received from a first device in the network via a first network connection, the packets in the packet flow being destined for a second device in the network;
generating, at the network device, when congestion notification packet generation is enabled for the packet flow, a congestion notification packet by replicating a packet from the packet flow;
sending from the network device to the first device via the first network connection, the congestion notification packet identifying the packet flow for which congestion is detected; and
forwarding the plurality of packets in the packet flow from the network device to the second device via a second the network connection.