Patent ID: 9270489
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: a transmitter; a receiver configured to receive, over a communications network, a protocol data unit of a first protocol, the protocol data unit of the first protocol including: a processor coupled to the transmitter and the receiver, the processor being configured to: wherein the second header portion is used in a second explicit congestion notification standard to indicate congestion, the second explicit congestion notification standard being different from the first explicit congestion notification standard; and a network interface card configured to maintain separate transmission queues for each type of protocol data unit payload, and in response to receiving an indication of congestion of the communications network for protocol data units of the first protocol, changing a transmission rate of protocol data units from at least one of the queues corresponding to protocol data unit payloads of the second protocol, the network interface card configured to translate notifications of congestion from the first explicit congestion notification standard to the second explicit congestion notification standard.