Patent ID: 9480079
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: arranging a plurality of traffic streams of different types into a plurality of levels, each of the plurality of traffic streams comprising service tasks corresponding to data transmissions performed at a service task interval, wherein the arranging is based on a respective length of the service task interval of each of the plurality of traffic streams of different types; scheduling zeroth level service tasks for transmission during a beginning portion of a first service interval, the zeroth level service tasks having a longest of the length of service task intervals and being scheduled in series; and scheduling a plurality of first level schedulettes of first level service tasks during a residual portion of the first service interval so that transmission of each first level schedulette will commence after transmission of the zeroth level service tasks, wherein the residual portion of the first service interval does not include any of the zeroth level service tasks, wherein each respective first level schedulette is comprised of first level service tasks scheduled for transmission and a plurality of second level schedulettes scheduled for transmission after transmission of the first level service tasks; and wherein each respective second level schedulette is comprised of second level service tasks having a length of service task interval less than that of the first level service tasks.