Patent ID: 9503395
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: H04L,H04Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for distributing packets in a network, comprising: receiving the packets at a source node; identifying a destination node for the packets; identifying a first intermediate node of a plurality of intermediate nodes over which the packets can be sent from the source node to the destination node; identifying a second intermediate node of the plurality of intermediate nodes over which the packets can be sent from the source node to the destination node; identifying a first bandwidth of a first connection between the source node and the first intermediate node and a second bandwidth of a second connection between the source node and the second intermediate node; identifying a third bandwidth of a third connection between the first intermediate node and the destination node and a fourth bandwidth of a fourth connection between the second intermediate node and the destination node; determining a first percentage of the received packets to transmit from the source node through the first connection based at least on the first bandwidth and the third bandwidth; determining a second percentage of the received packets to transmit from the source node through the second connection based at least on the second bandwidth and the fourth bandwidth; programming the source node to transmit the first percentage of packets to the first intermediate node and to transmit the second percentage of packets to the second intermediate node; and transmitting the first percentage of the packets and the second percentage of packets by the source node.