Patent ID: 9515940
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for transmitting data in a packet-oriented communication network having a guaranteed maximum transmission time for data packets in the communications network, comprising: determining the capacity of the communication network using a reservation request for determining the capacity of the communication network at least one of: wherein the reservation request for determining the capacity of the communication network is sent with an identifier that identifies the reservation request as a request for determining the capacity such that a real reservation request has priority over the reservation request for determining the capacity of the communication network; reserving a specific quality of service as a capacity of a communication link prior to a data transmission by a real reservation request from a sender of data to a receiver of the data; at least one of: guaranteeing a requested quality of service as a capacity of the communication link between the sender and the receiver in the network for a datastream by confirmation of the real reservation request or providing an indication in the form of a rejection that transmission is not possible; sending a datastream from a sender to a receiver, the contents of which are the data packets having a time entry which comprises a sum of a current time on sending the data packet plus a predeterminable time interval; comparing, in the receiver, the sum with the time entry; sending an error message by the receiver if the processing time is after the time entry in time.